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

Chenoweth, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Range Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43143. It stands on Bradford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Chenoweth within Madison County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chenoweth, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Chenoweth, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1883 county history

6,669 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Range Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Range Township - 6,669 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 123 shown

Museums hold 123 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chenoweth between 1898 and 1972: 114 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brommer, R. & Moerchen, R. (Richard), Charles O. Wingo Jr., Dillon, T. (Terry) 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 Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 323, 4 miles west of Mount Sterling
Specimen of Medicago sativa L.Medicago sativa L.1961Charles O. Wingo Jr.Roadside, dry bank 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, Route 232, Madison County, Ohio.
Specimen of Trifolium hybridum L.Trifolium hybridum L.1961Charles O. Wingo Jr.Dry roadside bank, 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, route 323, Madison County, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Ptilostomis ocellifera, not of this specimenPtilostomis ocellifera (Walker, 1852)1898Scott O'Dee
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Oak Run, Madison Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1940Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1940Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1940Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561940Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891940Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township

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

Storms nearby

2 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Chenoweth in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 2 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 2021Thunderstorm WindChenoweth$5,000Numerous trees were downed on Dyer Road. A garage door was also blown in and damaged.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChenoweth$1,000A tree was downed near the intersection of Junk Road and Yankeetown-Chenoweth Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Bethel1.9 miles10
Range3.6 miles10
Nioga (historical)4.1 miles11
McClimansville4.6 miles10
Burr Oaks Heights4.6 miles10
Mount Sterling5.0 miles10
Antioch5.2 miles11
Kiousville5.6 miles11

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 ChenowethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5091542The 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 1056240. 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.