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

Centenary, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It lies in Liddy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rodney quadrangle.

Centenary within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centenary, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Centenary, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires nearby

43 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Centenary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5606
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8687
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5005
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 392 shown

Museums hold 392 specimens collected within 10 miles of Centenary between 1888 and 1973: 214 Animalia, 124 Fungi, 40 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., Bartley, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Macrhybopsis storeriana, not of this specimenMacrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma carinatum, not of this specimenMoxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallNear Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimenNotropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimenNotropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimenPercina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 392 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Centenary: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Storms nearby

1 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Centenary in 1 storm report between 1999 and 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCentenary$3,000Trees were blown across Route 141.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Green Acres1.3 miles16
Meadow Look1.3 miles16
Northup1.5 miles13
The Meadows1.8 miles13
Fairfield Acres1.8 miles13
Morton Flats2.1 miles13
Porterbrook2.2 miles13
Evans Heights2.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075547. 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.