Centerville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Prospect Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43342. The Survey maps it on the Prospect quadrangle.

Centerville within Marion County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centerville, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Centerville, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 printed 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.

1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Prospect quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

74,732 words on this township

The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Prospect Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The following is the annual report for 1833, giving the present agricultural status of Prospect Township: Wheat, acres sown. 2,680; bushels produced, 4,174; number of acres sown for harvest of 1883, 2,600. Oats, acres sown, 250; acres sown for crop of 1883, 91; bushels produced, 5,030. Corn, acres planted, 2,251; acres planted for crop of 1883, 2,271; bushels produced. 94,085. Meadow, acres, 471; tons of hay, 730. Clover, acres.

Passage source: The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883.

Three villages have sprung up within the present borders of this township, one being called Columbia, one Centerville and the other Prospect. The first-named was laid out by Elijah Adams in 1832, about one mile north of Prospect, along the river, on the farm now owned by John Decker, and a number of lots were platted, but the place not having the natural elements and surroundings to insure prosperity, no enterprising persons invested in property or located there, and its founder soon gave up the hope of building a town upon this site, and the place finally reverted into a field, and now there is scarcely a monument of any kind left to mark the spot.

Centerville is a small town located on the line of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, about ten miles southwest of Marion. It was laid out in October, 1863, by George Clay, and is situated in the Virginia Military District, in Survey No. 10,240, lying west of the northwest corner of a lot of land owned by Joseph Tunis, and being on the northeast corner of George Clay's land. It contains one general grocery store, saw mill and a warehouse for the temporary storage of grain, a schoolhouse. and dwelling houses to the number, perhaps, of a dozen. Its growth has been neither rapid nor remarkable.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Prospect Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 366 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 366 specimens collected within 10 miles of Centerville between 1892 and 1975: 354 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Acker, G., Baumgartner, L. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Catocala habilis Grote, 1872	1959	not recorded	Camp Owens
Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965	1964	J. Peacock	[Not Stated]
Galium circaezans Michx.	1892	E E Bogue	Prospect
Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Marion
Helminthosporium teres Sacc.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Prospect
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Photinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)	1923	not recorded	Marion
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township

All 366 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fleming Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fleming Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Green Camp Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Green Camp Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Penry Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Penry Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Prospect Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Prospect Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ri Alto Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Union Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Newmans	2.8 miles	12
Green Camp	3.1 miles	13
Gast Corner	3.3 miles	12
Prospect	4.2 miles	12
Owens	4.9 miles	13
Country Club Hills	5.1 miles	13
Quarry Estates	5.2 miles	13
Eagle Creek	5.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056784. 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.

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.