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

Atwater Center, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Atwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44201. The Survey maps it on the Atwater quadrangle.

Atwater Center within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Atwater Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Atwater Center, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

In the 1885 county history

4,882 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Atwater Township covers arrival of atwater and others, early privations, birth of first child, another lone settler, organization, marriages and deaths.

Read the chapter on Atwater Township - 4,882 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 101 shown

Museums hold 101 specimens collected within 10 miles of Atwater Center between 1880 and 1971: 85 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., B. J. Crandall, B.J.Crandall 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 Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 1854Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 18541928not recordedCongress Lake Outlet, SW of Kent, North America
Specimen of Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) PeckAgaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Pyganodon cataracta, not of this specimenPyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown, Congress Lake Outlet and Cuyahoga River(pond to)
A photograph of the species Sagittunio nasutus, not of this specimenSagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Atwater
A photograph of the species Carex folliculata, not of this specimenCarex folliculata L.1910Webb, R.J.Muzzy Lake
A photograph of the species Scutellaria lateriflora, not of this specimenScutellaria lateriflora L.1910Webb, R.J.Muzzy Lake
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Riker A. J.New Milford

All 101 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 Atwater Center: 1 producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deerfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms nearby

1 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Atwater Center in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013HailAtwater Center-A trained spotter reported penny size hail near Stroup and Waterloo Roads in Atwater.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Countrywide Estates0.6 miles18
Atwater0.8 miles18
Five Corners2.5 miles18
Yale3.8 miles14
All Seasons Lake Park3.8 miles14
Industry4.4 miles18
Deerfield5.2 miles14
Edinburg5.3 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122556350The 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 1060835. 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.

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.