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

Chambersburg, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44657. The Survey maps it on the Homeworth quadrangle.

Chambersburg within Columbiana County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Chambersburg, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Chambersburg, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

In the county-history sources

42,133 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The township of West, No. 16 north, range 5 east, is hounded as follows: north, by Knox township; east, by Hanover township ; south, by Carroll County ; and west, by Stark County. Among the natural curiosities of the township is the watershed which separates the waters of the Tuscarawas and Mahoning Rivers. On the farm of James Reed are several springs, from the principal of which the family obtain their supply of water. It is located in the cellar of his dwelling. Thence the water takes an easterly course for nearly half a mile to what is known as " Gimlet Hill," near Chambersburg. At the foot of the hill the water separates, about one-half of its volume coursing southward, joining the Big Sandy, thence the Tuscarawas, and eventually reaching the Ohio River through Muskingum at Marietta. The other branch flows northeasterly through North Georgetown, Alliance, Warren, Trumbull County; thence via Youngstown to the Ohio, near Beaver, Pa.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

The whole township is well drained by the Mahoning River and its numerous branches on the north, the Big Sandy and tributaries of the Tuscarawas on the west and south. The surface of the land is undulating, and in some localities quite hilly, but not sufficiently so to be termed mountainous. The greatest elevation is attained in the vicinity of Chambersburg, on sections 9, 10, 15, and 16.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Chambersburg was originally platted and laid out on the 20th day of December, 1828, under the proprietorship of Michael Coxsen, David Myers, George Ball, and William McMillon. As laid out it comprised the southeast quarter of section 9 and the southwest quarter of section 10. The map or plat was recorded Dec. 22, 1828. In June, 1842, the village plat was enlarged by including lands of Jonathan D. Koffel.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on West Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Chambersburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 9 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15729
2 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15944
6 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15931
22 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15359
20 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15988

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 318 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 318 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chambersburg between 1878 and 1967: 177 Animalia, 140 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1878	Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman	Ohio Valley
Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1883	not recorded	Beloit
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
Viola L.	1897	Holzinger, J.M.	Winona County.
Leuciscus elongatus Valenciennes, 1844	1901	E. B. Williamson	Cold Run
Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1906	Sterki, Victor	Sebring
Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1906	Sterki, Victor	Sebring

All 318 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chambersburg in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chambersburg	-	A storm survey team reported damage in the areas of Chambersburg, Bayard, Winona, and East Rochester caused by early morning storms. Areas damaged include Knox-School road near Sandy Spring Road. A large swath of trees were snapped and uprooted. Peak gust were 85 to 90mph.\|Additional damage was noted on Winona Road. Hardwood trees were snapped mid-trunk. Most trees fell in the the direction of the storm motion.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Alexander	2.0 miles	14
Moultrie	2.2 miles	18
East Rochester	2.9 miles	14
Bayard	3.1 miles	18
Reading	3.3 miles	18
Town And Country Park Estates	3.5 miles	14
Bridgewater	3.6 miles	14
Lynchburg	3.6 miles	14

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 Chambersburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133640	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 1060948. 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.

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.