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

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.

Chandlersville within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Chandlersville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chandlersville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

41 since 2002

The 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15152
8 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15092
23 April 2014Debris and open burning5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,342 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1908A. H. WrightNew Concord
A photograph of the species Medicago sativa, not of this specimenMedicago sativa L.1911Coleman, J.New Concord

All 1,342 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Puskarich Limestone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

4 since 2004

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Thunderstorm WindChandlersville$2,000A trained spotter reported that ten large trees were snapped our uprooted.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindChandlersville-An emergency manager reported trees and power lines down.
October 2021Tornado (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 2004Flash FloodChandlersville-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.

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Seawright (historical)1.3 miles15
Smith (historical)1.4 miles15
Lawton (historical)2.4 miles15
Smith Mill2.5 miles15
McDonald2.7 miles14
Pierce (historical)3.0 miles15
Freeland3.0 miles15
Rich Hill (historical)4.1 miles15

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 ChandlersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5071214The 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.