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West 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.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
16 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Broadview Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 1994The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Center between 1994 and 2001, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 June 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | KEEBLER |
| 17 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | BOSTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 565 shownMuseums hold 565 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Center between 1877 and 1973: 545 Animalia, 16 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | C. Rutter | Cuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio |
 | Lycopodium lucidulum Michx. | 1973 | George T. Jones | 1 mile west of Everett, Richfield Township |
 | Empidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843) | 1877 | A. Hall | Cuyahoga |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | not recorded | Peninsula, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio |
 | Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1893 | not recorded | Peninsula |
 | Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815) | 1905 | not recorded | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766 | 1905 | Craug, E. F. | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1905 | not recorded | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788 | 1905 | Craug, E. F. | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann, 1780) | 1905 | Craug, E. F. | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
| Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823) | 1909 | Hine, M. B. | Ira, Summit Co., Ohio, USA |
All 565 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Richfield | 1.0 miles | 21 | |
| East Center | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Richfield | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Broadview | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Osborn Corners | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Richfield Heights | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Bath | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Boston | 5.6 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 Q122545599 | 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 1058490. 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.