Chatham, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1966

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.

• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Newton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chatham in 2019, burning about 14 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Saint Louisville
• Utica
• Pattons Corners
• Purity

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,233 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chatham between 1853 and 1975: 2,010 Animalia, 177 Fungi, 26 Protozoa, 17 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. M., A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott 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
	Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1884	F. S. Robinson
	Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1893	J.B. Ellis	Granville
	Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.	1893	H. L. Jones
	Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	Mack, D. (Don)	Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789	1874	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)	1878	Savage, E. (Ed)	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas acuta Linnaeus, 1758	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,233 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Chatham: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Licking County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatham in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Licking County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056793. 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.