Caldwell, Ohio

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• Noble County

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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

• Samuel Caldwell Houselisted 1980
• Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Officelisted 2004
• Caldwell Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2020
• SHENANDOAH Crash Siteslisted 1989

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 27 shown

• Depot, at SarahsvilleDepot, in the atlas of 1911 to 1932
• Exchange HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1905 to 1911
• High School at SummerfieldSchool, in the atlas of 1923 to 1932
• Post OfficeIce House, in the atlas of 1932 to 1948
• Presbyterian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905 to 1948
• American HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1905
• Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1895
• Belle Valley SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1948
• Buckey, R.D., Feed MillMill, in the atlas of 1948
• Center Local SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1948
• Christian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1905
• Church of ChristChurch, in the atlas of 1948

Every atlas business in Noble County

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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 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

History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Olive Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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	not recorded	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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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. 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.

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.