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

Central Avenue Park, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sylvania Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43615. The Survey maps it on the Sylvania quadrangle.

Central Avenue Park within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Central Avenue Park, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Central Avenue Park, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

2 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Central Avenue Park between 2018 and 2020, 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA LAKE FD 0000040 - 2018
11 October 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA LAKE FD 20154 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,340 shown

Museums hold 2,340 specimens collected within 10 miles of Central Avenue Park between 1863 and 1975: 2,000 Animalia, 168 Plantae, 159 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded, 5 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aaron J. Sharp, Aborn, R. 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
Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1900	F.D. Kelsey	Toledo
Lupinus perennis L.	1900	Kelsey, F.D.	America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
Lepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray	1863	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Nelumbium luteum Willd.	1866	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1885	Collector(s): J. A. Singley	Toledo
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1885	Cooper, W.C.	Lambertville
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1889	J. Y. Pennypacker	Toledo
Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947	1893	not recorded	Toledo, Maumee River
Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	TOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin

All 2,340 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Central Avenue Park: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Silica Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Silica Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Stlica Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Toledo Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Foster Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Foster Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Strawberry Acres Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Strawberry Acres Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas 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
Richards (historical)	1.9 miles	15
Reynolds Corners	2.0 miles	15
Ottawa Hills	2.3 miles	15
Elden Heights	2.7 miles	15
Haven Park	3.1 miles	15
Silica	3.2 miles	15
Sylvania	3.2 miles	15
South Hill Park	3.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048592. 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.