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

Chautauqua, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45342. It stands on Crains Run. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Chautauqua within Montgomery County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chautauqua, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Chautauqua, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1882 county history

25,484 words on this township

The county history of 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Miami Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Miami Township - 25,484 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 123 shown

Museums hold 123 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chautauqua between 1835 and 1975: 98 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN 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 Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
Specimen of Dryopteris cristata (L.) A.GrayDryopteris cristata (L.) A.Gray1898Young, H.W.Farmersville
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1929?Hueston Woods.
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1888E. S. SteeleCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Malva moschata, not of this specimenMalva moschata L.1889ATWCarlisle
A photograph of the species Phlox divaricata, not of this specimenPhlox divaricata L.1890Henry C. CowlesCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Peronospora parasitica, not of this specimenPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1907Scheible, E.Miamisburg
A photograph of the species Rhizoctonia DC., not of this specimenRhizoctonia DC.1907Gilbert W. W.Germantown
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1908E. E. HuneanMiamisburg
A photograph of the species Phyllactinia corylea, not of this specimenPhyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1908see Collection NoteMiamisburg
Stenocrepis cuprea (Chaudoir, 1843)1921ChamberlainMiamisburg
A photograph of the species Puccinia sorghi, not of this specimenPuccinia sorghi Schwein.1926Overholts L. O.Germantown

All 123 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chautauqua: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carter & Webb IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weidle Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms nearby

2 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Chautauqua in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1998HailChautauqua-A thunderstorm left a path of large hail which accumulated to several inches in spots.
October 2014HailChautauqua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Oakwood Village2.7 miles13
Bridgeport3.5 miles13
Miamisburg3.7 miles13
Sunbury4.0 miles13
Germantown4.6 miles13
Shanersville5.0 miles14
Mudlick5.4 miles12
Pineview Estates5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056794. 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.

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.