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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Columbia, Williams County, Ohio
- ↑ Bowersox, Charles A. (1920). A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 382.
- ↑ Hilton & Due: Electric Interurban Railways of America Sanford University Press 2000 p. 276
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