Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge 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 Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Center between 2009 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

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:

• Clio (historical)
• Brady
• Coventry Estates
• Warrentown
• Craig
• Sunnymeade

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Museums hold 346 specimens collected within 10 miles of Center between 1875 and 1975: 136 Fungi, 121 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., 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
	Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.	1902	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp
	Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.	1922	F. O. Grover	Black swamp
	Clavaria kunzei Fr.	1923	Treat, Dorothy	Birmingham
	Asclepias tuberosa L.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
	Enslenia albida Nutt.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
	Impatiens pallida Nutt.	1875	Lloyd, Curtis Gates	Fairmont
	Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.	1893	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Favolus europaeus Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill

All 346 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. 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 Guernsey County

The National Weather Service names Center in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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 1082324. 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.