Chandlersville, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43727. It stands on Lepage Run. The Survey maps it on the Norwich quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 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
15 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.
- 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
41 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Chandlersville between 2002 and 2019, burning about 106 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 | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15152 |
| 8 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15092 |
| 23 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,342 shownMuseums hold 1,342 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chandlersville between 1890 and 1975: 1,239 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Scleroderris rubra Morgan | 1891 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Peziza nana Massee & Morgan | 1895 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Frullania saxicola Austin | 1896 | William C. Werner | |
![]() | Frullania eboracensis Lehm. | 1890 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Porella pinnata L. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893 | 1893 | Morgan A.P. | Preston |
![]() | Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Peziza morganii Massee | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage). |
| Tapesia derelicta Morgan | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston | |
![]() | Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1908 | A. H. Wright | New Concord |
![]() | Medicago sativa L. | 1911 | Coleman, J. | New Concord |
All 1,342 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chandlersville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puskarich Limestone Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
4 since 2004The National Weather Service names Chandlersville in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chandlersville | $2,000 | A trained spotter reported that ten large trees were snapped our uprooted. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chandlersville | - | An emergency manager reported trees and power lines down. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Chandlersville | - | Damage began near Chandlersville Rd and Coon Ridge Rd and |continued to points along Claysville Rd. The tornado grew to its |widest and strongest along Chandlersville Rd, where farm buildings|were considerably damaged, including a cement silo. Several homes|and non-residential business buildings sustained varying degrees |of roof and fascia damage, and several homes had windows blown in |or broken. Considerable damage to trees was noted, including |uproots and trunk snappage. Roof debris from farm buildings was |discovered up to a mile downwind.||The cement silo identified above was reported to have survived |the 2012 derecho. Since silos are not official Damage Indicators, |we are consulting with experts to identify the potential wind |speed leading to the indicated damage.|Estimated Maximum Wind Speed...95 mph. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Chandlersville | - | At 355 PM EDT, roads were flooded in Chandlersville. By 620 PM, flooding was reported 7 miles east of Duncan Falls, along Route 146. By 735 PM, flooded occurred in Madison Twp, in the northeast corner of the county. At 1 AM on 19th, Route 16 near Adams Mills flooded. By 2 AM on 19th, Route 146 near Spratt flooded. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seawright (historical) | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Smith (historical) | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lawton (historical) | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Smith Mill | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| McDonald | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pierce (historical) | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Freeland | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rich Hill (historical) | 4.1 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.
| Wikipedia article on Chandlersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5071214 | 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 1056788. 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.

























