Chalfants, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1984

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 Thornville quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Hopewell 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 19 fires within 5 miles of Chalfants between 2007 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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:

• Glass Rock
• Glenford
• Yost
• Walser
• Ziontown
• Mount Perry

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 204 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chalfants between 1891 and 1975: 187 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bergstrom, J., Buchanan, J., Buker, W.E. 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
	Holwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand	1891	W. A. Kellerman	[Specific locality illegible.]
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner	Fultonham
	Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle	1895	W. A. Kellerman
	Natrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856)	1902	Dilto, C. R.	Perry Co., Ohio
	Puccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.	1902	W. A. Kellerman & J. McOwen Jr.
	Uromyces (Link) Unger, 1833	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Buckeye Lake
	Endothia fluens (Sowerby) Shear & N.E.Stevens	1912	Nixon E. L.	Perry Co.
	Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)	1926	Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)	Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA
	Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Potersville: in edge of Co., Perry Co., Ohio
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA

All 204 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chalfants: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Perry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalfants in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash 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 Perry County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066636. 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.