Columbia Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Columbia Baptist Churchlisted 1976
• Columbia Town Halllisted 1976

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 Berea quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Berea quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1953 USGS West View quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS West View quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS West View quadrangle1:24000

History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 551 specimens collected within 10 miles of Columbia Center between 1888 and 1975: 509 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, BJ Zahuranec & party 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
	Osmunda claytoniana L.	1888	McCormick, L.M.	Black River.
	Carex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.	1892	H. C. Cowles	Black River. East branch, Hart's Station.
	Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell	1892	Cowles, H.C.	Elyria
	Erimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	A. Woolman	Rocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1893	Woolman	Rocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
	Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1893	not recorded	Olmsted Falls, Rocky River
	Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Olmsted Falls, Rocky River
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	A. Woolman	Rocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
	Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth	1896	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
	Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Lester
	Penthorum sedoides L.	1897	J. R. Watson	Columbia Station
	Bombomima Enderlein, 1914	1923	Fuller, A. B. (Arthur B.)	North Olmsted, Cuyahoga Co., OH

All 551 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1056827. 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.

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