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

Lewis Center, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43035. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle.

Lewis Center within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

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 Lewis Center, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Lewis Center, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,878 shown

Museums hold 2,878 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lewis Center between 1850 and 1975: 2,704 Animalia, 94 Plantae, 74 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA

All 2,878 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

15 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Lewis Center in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$5,000Several trees were downed near the entry to Shale Hollow Park.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$5,000Numerous healthy trees were knocked down near the intersection of Short and North Roads.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$5,000Minor structural damage occurred due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$5,000Several large trees were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$5,000Trees and power lines.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$1,000A tree was downed on Dubois Road.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLewis Center$500Several large tree limbs were downed near Glen Oak Elementary School.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLewis Center-The wind gust was measured on a personal weather station.
August 2021FloodLewis Center-Water was overflowing out of storm drains and onto the street near the intersection of Powell Road and U.S. 23.
June 2018FloodLewis Center-High water was reported on Walnut Blvd. in a trailer park.
May 2012Heavy RainLewis Center-Standing water about the depth of a tire was reported on area roadways due to heavy rain.
July 2023HailLewis Center-no account filed
June 2013HailLewis Center-no account filed
June 2011HailLewis Center-no account filed
May 1997HailLewis Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

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
Meadows At Lewis Center0.8 miles14
Bryn Mawr1.1 miles14
Alum Crossing1.1 miles14
Willow Springs1.3 miles14
Olentangy Crossings1.3 miles16
Village At North Falls1.3 miles16
The Shores1.4 miles14
Glen Oak1.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057794. 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.