Bath Center, Ohio
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44333. It stands on Bath Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Richfield quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
21 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS West Richfield quadrangle1:24000
In the 1908 county history
47,064 words on this townshipThe county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Bath Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bath Township - 47,064 words.
Fires nearby
4 since 1993The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bath Center between 1993 and 2012, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | AKRONS |
| 30 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | RAILROAD |
| 13 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | BRUNTY |
| 22 June 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | ERDOS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 775 shownMuseums hold 775 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bath Center between 1867 and 1975: 680 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 40 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. Hall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1889 | Foltz, Kent O. | Sand Run Park; Akron |
![]() | Asclepias verticillata L. | 1889 | not recorded | Akron |
![]() | Osmunda cinnamomea L. | 1890 | Kofoid, C.A. | Akron. |
![]() | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1867 | Collector(s): James Lee Peters | Akron |
![]() | Empidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843) | 1877 | A. Hall | Cuyahoga |
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1880 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
![]() | Hydrastis canadensis L. | 1888 | E.L. Sturtevant II | |
![]() | Lonicera dioica L. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
![]() | Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
![]() | Carex pensylvanica Lam. | 1889 | Foltz, K.O. | Akron |
![]() | Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer | 1889 | K. O. Foltz | Copley Swamp, near Akron |
![]() | Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt | 1890 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
All 775 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bath 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flesher Plant No. 2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2005The National Weather Service names Bath Center in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Bath Center | $1,500,000 | Torrential rainfall with rates around two inches per hour brought around 4 to 6 inches of rain to Summit County. The heaviest rain fell from Akron and to the north and western part of the county. The maximum daily total precipitation that was reported by an official NWS cooperative weather observer was 4.84 inches at the Akron-Canton Airport (CAK). CAK Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) recorded the rain between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM of around 4 inches, with additional rainfall thereafter. This rainfall event frequency falls around a 500 year recurrence interval, or 0.2% chance of occurring in a single year. The town of Copley also experienced significant flooding along the Pigeon Creek where the heaviest rain fell. An apartment complex was inundated and rescues were made. Hundreds of homes and businesses experienced basement flooding with a few first floors inundated as well. In the town of Green residents testified to a historic flood in Spade Road area. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath Center | $2,000 | A few trees and large limbs were reported down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghent | 0.7 miles | 21 | |
| Bath | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Montrose | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Richfield Heights | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Stoney Hill | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Ira | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Fairlawn | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Osborn Corners | 3.2 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064391. 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.
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.
































