Willow Brook Crossing, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1966

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.

• 1902 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS New Albany quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS New Albany quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Willow Brook Crossing between 2009 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Asbury Heights
• Bedford Place
• Blacklick
• Blacklick Ridge
• Briarcliff
• Brookside Park

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,925 specimens collected within 10 miles of Willow Brook Crossing between 1840 and 1975: 1,724 Animalia, 159 Plantae, 42 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. Basinger, A. P. Morgan, Almon J. Basinger 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
	Sporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex Link	1900	W. A. Kellerman
	Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1840	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Anoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	Sullivant, W.S.	Columbus
	Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Astomum muhlenbergianum (Sw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Aulacomnium heterostichum (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Masons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Alum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 1,925 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Willow Brook Crossing: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Franklin 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 2771238. 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.