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

Willowbrook, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Virginia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43812. The Survey maps it on the Conesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Willowbrook within Coshocton County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

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 Willowbrook (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Willowbrook (historical), surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

20 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Willowbrook (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 226 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
28 June 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5106
16 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8306
16 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8625
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15157
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4745
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11685
1 April 2014Debris and open burning35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 930 shown

Museums hold 930 specimens collected within 10 miles of Willowbrook (historical) between 1846 and 1974: 754 Animalia, 110 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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 Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1942Harold N. Moldenkenear coshocton
Specimen of Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) ChuppCercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp1943Lawrence J. King; L.O. OverholtsWatershed 130
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 930 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 Willowbrook (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Bowerston PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton 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
Pleasantville (historical)1.7 miles14
New Moscow1.8 miles14
Tyndall3.0 miles14
Franklin3.0 miles14
Tyrone3.1 miles16
Conesville3.5 miles14
Clowville (historical)4.2 miles14
Blue Row4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061820. 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.