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

Centerpoint, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45167. It stands on Sheep Run. The Survey maps it on the Higginsport quadrangle.

Centerpoint within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centerpoint, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Centerpoint, surveyed 1928

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.

In the 1883 county history

49,884 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 49,884 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Centerpoint between 2012 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
Debris and open burning1

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
22 February 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 374 shown

Museums hold 374 specimens collected within 10 miles of Centerpoint between 1883 and 1974: 289 Animalia, 75 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1938R. RhoadesSmall Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stictis Pers., not of this specimenStictis Pers., 18001883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercospora sordida, not of this specimenCercospora sordida Sacc.1899King H. B.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera peckii U.Braun1899Patterson F. W.Ripley

All 374 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Centerpoint: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Brown County Engineer Lms. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
White Oak Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maysville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ruggles Stone Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ruggles Stone Company Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms nearby

2 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Centerpoint in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 2 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCenterpoint$15,000Several trees were uprooted and snapped along Ripley-Day Hill road, near U.S. 68. This included a tree that fell on a camper.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCenterpoint$1,000A tree was downed.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Reeds1.5 miles12
Levanna2.2 miles12
Hillman (historical)2.4 miles11
Higginsport4.1 miles12
Stringtown4.3 miles11
Ripley4.4 miles13
Georgetown4.6 miles12
East Ripley4.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062691. 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.