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

East Center, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44286. The Survey maps it on the Broadview Heights quadrangle.

East Center within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Center, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

5 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of East Center between 1994 and 2012, burning about 1 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 use1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
22 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkERDOS
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 568 shown

Museums hold 568 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Center between 1877 and 1973: 547 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)1928not recordedBrandywine Brook, Hudson, North America
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1893not recordedPeninsula
A photograph of the species Microtus pennsylvanicus, not of this specimenMicrotus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)1905not recordedIra, Summit Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Mustela nivalis, not of this specimenMustela nivalis Linnaeus, 17661905Craug, E. F.Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1905not recordedIra, Summit Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sciurus carolinensis, not of this specimenSciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 17881905Craug, E. F.Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA

All 568 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Richfield0.9 miles21
West Richfield1.4 miles21
West Center1.6 miles16
Broadview2.4 miles21
Richfield Heights3.4 miles21
Boston4.0 miles15
Osborn Corners4.2 miles21
Bath4.4 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122594083The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058489. 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.