Central College, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1995

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.

• 1902 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1995 USGS Northeast Columbus quadrangle1:24000

Museums hold 3,046 specimens collected within 10 miles of Central College between 1804 and 1975: 2,782 Animalia, 193 Plantae, 55 Fungi, 15 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Basinger, A. J. Penniman 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
	Sporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex Link	1900	W. A. Kellerman
	Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana	1804	Dr. Paddock	Worthington
	Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.	1805	J. R. Paddock	Worthington
	Carex comosa Boott	1809	Collector unknown	Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1840	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Podophyllum peltatum L.	1840	Sullivant, W.S.
	Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Anoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	Sullivant, W.S.	Columbus
	Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Alum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
	Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,046 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Central College in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056786. 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.

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.