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Williston, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Allen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43468. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. 439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Williston within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Williston fell from 487 to 439 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010487
2020439-48 (-10%)

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Williston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Williston, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

9 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Williston between 2019 and 2020, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15765
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15763
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15677
9 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15919
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15920
17 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15854
14 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15851
14 October 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15852

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 957 shown

Museums hold 957 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williston between 1825 and 1975: 938 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch, Albiet, P. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Procambarus blandingii, not of this specimenProcambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Esox lucius, not of this specimenEsox lucius Linnaeus, 17581894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore

All 957 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Williston: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay Center PlantStoneProducer
White Rock QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock Quarry L.P.CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

12 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Williston in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWilliston$150,000A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated to be at least 60 mph downed dozens of trees across the northern third of Ottawa County during the early morning hours of June 6th. A few homes and buildings sustained minor damage, mainly from lost roofing or siding.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWilliston$10,000Numerous trees were reported down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindWilliston$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWilliston$8,000Numerous large limbs were reported down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWilliston$6,000Numerous trees were downed, some on power lines. An awning was blown off a house.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindWilliston$3,000The public reported four large healthy trees snapped or uprooted in Curtice and Jerusalem Township.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWilliston$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliston$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree in Allen Township near Williston.
March 2007HailWilliston-Nickel size hail was observed.
May 2004HailWilliston-Penny size hail was observed.
July 2000HailWilliston-no account filed
August 2000HailWilliston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clay Center3.0 miles16
Blackberry Corner3.1 miles16
Martin3.2 miles16
Trowbridge3.5 miles16
Grodis Corner4.2 miles16
Forest Park4.6 miles17
Elliston5.0 miles16
Middleton (historical)5.3 miles16

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on WillistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473069The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061787. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.