Columbia Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1992

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.

• 1907 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Columbia Center between 2009 and 2020, burning about 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Etna
• Fursville
• Pataskala
• Wagram
• Summit Station
• Happy Homes

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Museums hold 744 specimens collected within 10 miles of Columbia Center between 1890 and 1975: 720 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott, C.C. Green 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
	Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Puccinia seymeriae Burrill	1890	not recorded	Alexandria
	Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1894	not recorded	Alexandria
	Polyporus biennis (Bull.) Fr.	1911	Overholts, L. O.	West Elkton o around beech stump
	Polyporus giganteus (Pers.) Fr.	1915	Leeper, Burtt	Salem o around beech stump
	Tremellodon gelatinosus (Scop.) Fr.	1935	G. W. Martin	Old Man's Cave State Park
	Dothistroma pini Hulbary	1936	C.C. Green	Old Man's Grove
	Tabanus trimaculatus Palisot de Beauvois, 1806	1946	Edw S Thomas	Ash Cave
	Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1950	L. J. Gier	White's Gulch
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.	S Fk Licking River, Beaver Run on TR 35 about 0.4 mi W of SR 37.
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) & Lea, C. (Carol)	S.Fk.Licking River, Bell Run; Br. on TR 35 about 1.5 mi W of SR 37
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.	S Fk Licking River, Beaver Run on TR 35 about 0.4 mi W of SR 37.

All 744 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Columbia Center: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Every working recorded in Licking County

The National Weather Service names Columbia Center in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Licking 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 1060988. 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.

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.