Wills Creek, Ohio

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.

1908 1994

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.

• 1908 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Wills Creek between 2013 and 2020, burning about 11 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:

• Blue Row
• Conesville
• Franklin
• Tyndall
• Bacon
• Clowville (historical)

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Museums hold 680 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wills Creek between 1846 and 1974: 522 Animalia, 91 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Medicago lupulina L.	1942	Harold N. Moldenke	near coshocton
	Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp	1943	Lawrence J. King; L.O. Overholts	Watershed 130
	Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu	1846	W. S. Sullivant
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1898	Williamson, E. B.	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Lampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 1820	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton

All 680 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Wills Creek in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 Coshocton County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061790. 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.

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.