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Central City, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Heath City. It lies in ZIP code area 43056. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1909 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
Fires nearby
1 since 2020The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Central City (historical) between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15709 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,940 shownMuseums hold 2,940 specimens collected within 10 miles of Central City (historical) between 1843 and 1975: 2,611 Animalia, 247 Fungi, 53 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | F. S. Robinson | |
 | Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822 | 1893 | unknown | Licking Reservoir |
 | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1893 | J.B. Ellis | Granville |
 | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | 1843 | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | Mack, D. (Don) | Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1872 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA |
 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | 1874 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813) | 1878 | Savage, E. (Ed) | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
All 2,940 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heath | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Idlewild Park (historical) | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Union Station | 2.4 miles | 10 | |
| Locust Grove | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sandstone Canyon | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Welsh Hills | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Granville | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Lloyd Corners | 3.8 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1052268. 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.