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

Chasetown, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45118. It stands on Saltlick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Chasetown within Brown County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chasetown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Chasetown, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 197 shown

Museums hold 197 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chasetown between 1905 and 1974: 115 Fungi, 65 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, Arden R. Gaufin, Baur, Kay 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Septoria polygonorum, not of this specimenSeptoria polygonorum Desm.1925Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Cercospora elongata, not of this specimenCercospora elongata Peck1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum lineola, not of this specimenColletotrichum lineola Corda1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Diplodia rosae, not of this specimenDiplodia rosae Berk. & M.A.Curtis1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
Gloeosporium Desm. & Mont., 18491926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
Hypocrea citrina (Pers.) Fr.1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush

All 197 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Chasetown in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChasetown$5,000Several trees were downed along U.S. 68 in the Chasetown area.
June 2017Flash FloodChasetown-Water was flowing across Gausche Rd. and McCafferty Rd at U.S. 68.
May 2019HailChasetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Vera Cruz1.8 miles11
Fayetteville1.8 miles11
Upper Fivemile2.8 miles13
Kirbyville3.4 miles11
Fivemile3.8 miles13
Saint Martin4.2 miles11
Ferristown5.2 miles11
Bloom Rose (historical)5.3 miles13

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 ChasetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28131862The 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 1048595. 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.

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.