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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Willow Wood, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45696. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Willow Wood within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willow Wood, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Willow Wood, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

115 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Willow Wood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 893 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 were 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism25
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestWILGUS
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestSIMMS CREEK #1
17 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2204
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestCOW PILE FIRE
6 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestSHARPS CREEK ROAD
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 657 shown

Museums hold 657 specimens collected within 10 miles of Willow Wood between 1840 and 1974: 503 Animalia, 70 Fungi, 61 Plantae, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., Balser, G., Bartholomew E. 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
Specimen of Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
Specimen of Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze1909Summers, T. B.Huntington
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus1909Sheldon John L.Huntington

All 657 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willow Wood: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Brammer Const Co Pit No 1ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

4 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Willow Wood in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWillow Wood$250One tree and power line was blown down near Chesapeake.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindWillow Wood-A few trees were blown down onto roads.
November 2002HailWillow Wood-no account filed
January 1998HailWillow Wood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Linnville0.7 miles15
Ida (historical)2.2 miles15
Dobbston2.3 miles15
Bald Knob2.5 miles13
Aid2.8 miles15
Andis3.0 miles13
Suiter3.0 miles15
Manker (historical)3.1 miles13

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 Willow WoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8022386The 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 1077199. 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.