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

Center Station, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Decatur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45659. It lies in Kerns Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pedro quadrangle.

Center Station within Lawrence County

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 104 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 Station, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Center Station, surveyed 1898

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

313 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Center Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 111 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
Arson/incendiarism111
Debris and open burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use15
Other causes7
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestSR 93
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2007Smoking1.0 acresWayne National ForestPEDRO #2 FIRE
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestSLAB FORK
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestPEDRO #1 FIRE
24 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestWOOD SHED FIRE
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestPOPLAR FLATS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 275 shown

Museums hold 275 specimens collected within 10 miles of Center Station between 1890 and 1975: 213 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 25 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartley, F., C. Kennedy 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 19021899[Not Stated]Hanging Rock
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1890SchneckHanging Rock
A photograph of the species Bryoandersonia illecebra, not of this specimenBryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Campylophyllum hispidulum, not of this specimenCampylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Coleosporium vernoniae, not of this specimenColeosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.1892Carver Wm.Ironton
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Ditrichum pallidum, not of this specimenDitrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe1892W. C. WernerIronton
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Frullania asagrayana, not of this specimenFrullania asagrayana Mont.1892W. C. WernerIronton.
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1892W. C. WernerIronton

All 275 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Center Station: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, 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
Pedro Mine & MillClay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Bondclay MineClayPast Producer
Brohard PitClayProducer
Maquette Cement QuarryClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Pedro MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Pedro PlantClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Pinkston Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Pinkston Clay MineClayPast Producer
Superior Plant & Quarry CementClayProducer
Superior Shale Quarry-Bear RunClayProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Dean (historical)1.1 miles13
Bartles1.2 miles13
Lawrence2.4 miles13
Lawrence Furnace2.4 miles13
Vernon2.6 miles13
Cannons Creek2.8 miles13
Lisman3.1 miles13
Moulton (historical)3.3 miles13

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 Q122563673The 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 1075555. 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.