Caldwell, Ohio

This curated hub for Noble County, Ohio brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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Caldwell grew from 318 to 1,691 between 1870 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1994

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.

• 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Caldwell between 2009 and 2019, burning about 27 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Duvall
• Florence
• Slaters
• Vorhies (historical)
• Belle Valley
• Center (historical)

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Caldwell between 1884 and 1974: 50 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Trillium sessile L.	1884	None	Macksburg
	Daedalea ambigua Berk.	1902	Lloyd C. G.	Glenwood
	Colletotrichum trifolii Bain	1911	Scarberry J. J.	MACKSBURG
	Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1912	E. Bartholomew	Caldwell
	Populus tremuloides Michx.	1922	Davis, H.A.	Marion
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	near Cumberland, Noble, Ohio, USA
	Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Sarahsville, Noble Co., Ohio
	Progne subis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Caldwell 1 mi N, Noble, Ohio, USA

All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Caldwell: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Noble County

The National Weather Service names Caldwell in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 6 hail, 6 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.

Every storm recorded in Noble County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 6 issues spread across its run from 1946 to 1960, 4,175 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1038609. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.