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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 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. The Survey maps it on the Patriot quadrangle.

Centerpoint 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 Centerpoint, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Centerpoint, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

66 since 1998

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Centerpoint between 1998 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15269
16 August 2007Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15786
8 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4487
8 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15690
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestKENNISON
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 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 147 shown

Museums hold 147 specimens collected within 10 miles of Centerpoint between 1900 and 1974: 114 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, 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
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
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Evarthrus seximpressus (LeConte, 1846)1901not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1901Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Morse, M. (Max)Vinton, Gallia Co., Ohio
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1905Ricker P. L.Bidwell

All 147 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Centerpoint in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2015Flash FloodCenterpoint$5,000Indian Creek flooded and closed Route 279 near Route 35.
February 2022FloodCenterpoint$1,500High water was observed along several roadways on the evening of the 17th, including the intersection of White Oak Road and Ohio State Route 554, the intersection of Hannan Trace Road and Ohio State Route 775, and along Ohio State Route 850.
September 2018FloodCenterpoint$1,000Multiple roads were closed due to flooding, including State Routes 325, 554, and 850.

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
Tynrhos (historical)2.0 miles12
Thurman3.4 miles11
Gallia3.9 miles11
Rio Grande4.2 miles11
Cora4.6 miles13
Gage4.7 miles12
McCormick (historical)5.0 miles13
Siloam (historical)5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075556. 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.

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.