Wills Town, 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 Conesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wills Town (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 51 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:

• Adams Mills
• Adamsville
• Spencer
• Lower Dresden
• Ferncliff (historical)
• Rock Cut

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 446 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wills Town (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 221 Animalia, 217 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Adams, W., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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
	Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway
	Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl.	1931	E. B. Mains
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890)	1917	not recorded
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Trinway, Cass Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Near Adams Mills, Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Trinway, Cass Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Otsego, Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 446 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wills Town (historical): 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Muskingum 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 1069076. 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.