Williamstown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1986

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1905 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 525 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williamstown between 1886 and 1973: 518 Animalia, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Collector(s): David E. Ferguson, F GEHLBACH, F R & N V GEHLBACH and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)	1886	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus bohemicus Seidl, 1838	1887	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)	1895	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Arlington
	Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1905	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)	1906	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872)	1907	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)	1911	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus auricomus (Robertson, 1903)	1912	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1913	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus fraternus (Smith, 1854)	1913	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1914	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River

All 525 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Williamstown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamstown in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Hancock County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061786. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.