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

Chauncey, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45719. It stands on Sunday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle. 959 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Chauncey within Athens County

Population over time

2 figures

Chauncey fell from 1,049 to 959 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	1,049
2020	959	-90 (-9%)

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chauncey, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Chauncey, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

69 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Chauncey between 1994 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1

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
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BEAN HOLLOW
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RAW FIRE
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MONK RD FIRE
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BIG BAILEY
26 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RV FIRE 295

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,270 shown

Museums hold 1,270 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chauncey between 1896 and 1975: 1,069 Animalia, 146 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.	1896	Selby, A.D.	Caananville
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio

All 1,270 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chauncey: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Gravel Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms nearby

8 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Chauncey in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
April 2018	Flood	Chauncey	$5,000	The Hocking River flooded near Athens, with a crest around 22.5 feet, or half a foot above moderate flood stage, on the morning of the 5th. The river rose above flood stage just after noon on the 4th, and returned to within its banks during the predawn hours on the 6th. This caused flooding along East State Street in Athens.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	$5,000	Trees were downed.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	$4,000	Two trees were blown down in Chauncey, each bringing down electrical wires and blocking roads.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	$3,000	Downed trees and power lines were observed along 4th Street in downtown Chauncey.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	$500	A tree fell onto a power line along Liars Corner Road.
April 2025	Flood	Chauncey	-	State Route 682 was closed from 0.3 miles beyond Hamley Run Road to 5th Street due to flooding.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	-	Trees or large branches were blown down in scattered locations.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chauncey	-	Large branches were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Beaumont	1.0 miles	21
Morristown	1.2 miles	19
Liars Corner	1.3 miles	19
The Plains	2.0 miles	18
Hamley Run	2.1 miles	21
Poston	2.7 miles	19
Sugar Creek	2.9 miles	19
Millfield	3.0 miles	19

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 Chauncey	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q373237	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 1075568. 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.