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

Chatfield, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chatfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44818. The Survey maps it on the Chatfield quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Chatfield within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Chatfield grew from 189 to 205 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	189
2020	205	+16 (+8%)

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chatfield, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Chatfield, surveyed 1915

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.

In the county-history sources

8,582 words on this township

History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Chatfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wurtemberg, Germany, and was married to the mother of David in the j'car 1828, whose maiden name was Savina Haner, born in April, 1803, In 1833, they emigrated to this State in company with Esquire Hipp and father, making his first settlement in Holmes Co,, where he bought 80 acres in the woods, where he built a rude cabin and lived about two years and a half. In 1836, during the month of February, he came to Chatfield Township and bought 110 acres in Sec, 19, and but 3 acres were cleared. For the 110 acres he paid $400, Their outfit for keeping house was not elaborate or expensive ; sat on benches and ate their frugal fare, at night resting their tired limbs on rude bedsteads of their own construction. They planted their corn among the stumps, and harvested the same with a butcher knife yet they labored on and awaited the grow'th and development of the country, and lived to see the day when they were surrounded with all the conveniences of life, and a sure competence for their declining years, David remained with his parents until March 12, 1869, when he was married to Catharine Brigle, born in this township Sept, 6, 1843, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Sheffer) Brigle ; since has resided on the homestead. Has six children - Rosella M,, Emma M,, Lucy E,, Clara 0,, William H, and John A, Has 340 acres. The family are members of the German Lutheran Church, Of the four children - sisters and brothers - all of them are residents of the count}-.

Passage source: History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881.

J. D. LOYER, farmer ; P. O. Chatfield ; j was born Oct. 19, 1843. in Liberty Township, i Crawford Co., Ohio ; son of Michael and Catharine Grouse, who were natives of Wurtemberg, Germany, his birth bearing record 1805 ; his wife, one year later. In 1837. they crossed the broad Atlantic, to seek a home in the Western wilds, and amid the pioneers of the almost unbroken wilderness. After reaching America, they wended their way toward the setting sun, making their stand iu the Buckeye State, where they purchased 90 acres in Liberty Township, Crawford Co. Here the family were raised, which numbered, in all, twelve children, but six now living, J. D. being the ninth in order, who lived with his parents until 21 j^ears of age, after which he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for eight successive 3'ears, during this time making his father's house his home. In 1871, he came to Chatfield and purchased an interest in a steam sawmill, which he yet holds. Dec. 10, 1874, he ' was united in marriage to Catharine Lutz, who was born in this countj% Oct. 10, 1856, to ! Michael and Savina (Kalb) Lutz. Two chil- t dren have crowned this union, who are Clara ' M. and William F. Farming and milling is the business in which he is now engaged. Has 40 acres of land, and has recently erected a commodious house, completed in 1879, and, during the present year, a large barn, of mod- | em style of architecture. In 1874, he was i elected Township Clerk, and is yet serving in that capacity, with satisfaction to the people. I

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 Chatfield Township - it names this place 11 more 11 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 156 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 156 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chatfield between 1842 and 1973: 140 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
Gymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.	1906	Hieber Christina	Bucyrus
Puccinia chrysanthemi Roze	1922	Orewiler Henry	Tiro
Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Sandusky River, NE corner of Bucyrus Twp
Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1930	E. Wichliff	Bucyrus Fish Hatchery
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1931	Conant, R. (Roger)	W. of Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio
Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1932	Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley	Benton

All 156 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatfield in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	$25,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed.
June 2007	Hail	Chatfield	$5,000	Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	$4,000	A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated as the storm moved through area. Several large trees and large limbs were reported down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	$2,000	A few large limbs down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Lemert Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down on a road.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	-	Shed damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts in Chatfield.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chatfield	-	Thunderstorm winds downed at least two trees.
June 2010	Hail	Chatfield	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Chatfield	-	Penny size hail was observed.
July 2006	Hail	Chatfield	-	Nickel size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Fauser (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Ridgeton	3.5 miles	11
Lykens	3.9 miles	10
Broken Sword	4.9 miles	10
New Washington	4.9 miles	11
Brandywine	5.9 miles	13
Sulphur Springs	6.6 miles	13
Spore	7.8 miles	11

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 Chatfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q672116	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 1056792. 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.