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

Mark Center, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43536. The Survey maps it on the Mark Center quadrangle. It stands 2,359 feet above sea level.

Mark Center within Defiance County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mark Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mark Center, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 664 shown

Museums hold 664 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mark Center between 1860 and 1973: 664 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bays, J. (John), CLARENCE CLARK, Condit, J. M. (John M.) 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 Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
Specimen of Aeshna constricta Say, 1840Aeshna constricta Say, 18401944H. PriceLittle (Krill's) Lake
Specimen of Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)1944H. PriceLost Creek, Bricker Stock Farm on State Route 2
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181860unknownHicksville
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1860unknownHicksville
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio

All 664 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Mark Center in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Mark Center$100,000A National Weather Service (NWS) storm survey determined that a tornado initially touched down just east of Mark Center on Williams Center-Cecil Road, where eight utility poles were blown down towards the east with one pole being snapped. Immediately to the northeast of these poles on the south side of Highway 18, a small barn was blown off its foundation, but was left intact with a farm house across the road suffering some minor roof damage. The tornado briefly lifted, but touched down once again on Openlander Road between Lockwood and State Route 18. The front porch on a home was ripped off as well as a television antenna and large tree damaged. A large barn suffered some minor roof damage. As the tornado skipped a few more times, additional trees suffered varying damage, with a few homes suffering shingle or siding damage. The total length along the broken path was roughly 5 miles with a maximum width of only around 50 yards.
August 2016Tornado (EF2)Mark Center-The tornado touched down roughly 1/5 mile west of the intersection of Road 192 and Road 220, in Paulding county, in a wooded area next to a residence. The tornado tracked generally in a northeasterly direction causing extensive structural damage to homes, barns, trees, and crops throughout the entirety of the path. The tornado crossed into southwestern Defiance county before dissipating a few minutes later near the intersection of County Roads 33 and 122. Damage in Paulding county was rated up to an EF2, with damage in Defiance county peaking at EF1. The total length of the tornado across the two counties was nearly four and one half miles with peak estimated winds of 130 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMark Center-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph, with one large tree and several branches being blown down in the area.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMark Center-Emergency management officials reported a car port was blown into the tree tops of a local residence.

Every storm recorded in Defiance 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
Rosedale3.1 miles11
Sherwood4.1 miles11
Wilseyville (historical)4.7 miles11
Six Corners4.8 miles11
Cicero (historical)5.4 miles11
The Bend6.1 miles11
Moats6.3 miles11
Farmer6.5 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Mark CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11037868The 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 1057832. 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.