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

Little Center, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.

Little Center within Clinton County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little Center, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Little Center, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1915 county history

7,216 words on this township

The county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 7,216 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 493 shown

Museums hold 493 specimens collected within 10 miles of Little Center between 1892 and 1974: 426 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Boletus bicolor Raddi	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Corydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	E. C. Stinson	Harveysburg
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA

All 493 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Little Center in 9 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$10,000	Numerous trees were downed at several locations northwest of Wilmington, including properties along Center Road, Oglesbee Road and Curry Road.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$3,000	Several trees were downed near the intersection of Anderson and Center Roads.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$2,000	Several trees were reported down.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$2,000	A few trees were downed near the intersection of Mitchell Road and Center Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$1,000	A large tree was downed along Anderson Road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$1,000	Numerous large limbs were downed onto U.S. Route 22 between Ogden Road and Megan Drive.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Center	$500	A 10 to 12 inch diameter tree limb was knocked down.
June 2019	Flood	Little Center	-	Center Road was closed due to flooding.
June 2018	Flood	Little Center	-	High water was reported near the intersection of Mitchell Road and Route 22.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gurneyville	2.3 miles	15
Oakland	2.3 miles	13
Town And Country Estates	2.9 miles	14
Wilmington	3.4 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	3.8 miles	12
Sligo	3.9 miles	13
Kingman	3.9 miles	15
McKays	4.0 miles	15

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 Q122591147

The 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 1042649. 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.