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

Center, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43779. It stands on High Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sarahsville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Center within Noble County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Center (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Center (historical), surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

13 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Center (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15266
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15251
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15812
8 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8425
28 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4965
18 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4426
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13345
17 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11648

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 92 shown

Museums hold 92 specimens collected within 10 miles of Center (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 71 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Melissodes bimaculatus, not of this specimenMelissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & ass't.Seneca Fork, trib. of Wills Creek, extreme northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanTrib. of the Seneca Fork of Wills Creek, northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Seneca Fork Wills Creek, within Marion township, near Batesville, Marion township

All 92 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 Center (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Merrill Brothers LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble 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
Vorhies (historical)0.8 miles12
Sarahsville1.6 miles12
Fredericksdale2.1 miles12
Duvall2.3 miles12
East Union3.3 miles12
Caldwell4.0 miles13
Florence4.3 miles13
Slaters4.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065544. 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.