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

Chesapeake, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45619. It stands on Symmes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 765 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Chesapeake within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Chesapeake grew from 745 to 765 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	745
2020	765	+20 (+3%)

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chesapeake, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Chesapeake, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

55 since 1996

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Chesapeake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Debris and open burning	22
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8546
26 June 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8485
13 June 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8526
23 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8406
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13907
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14485
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13666

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 808 shown

Museums hold 808 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chesapeake between 1840 and 1974: 589 Animalia, 116 Plantae, 81 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees	1880	T Meehan
Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Big Sandy River, near mouth
Isoperla bilineata (Say, 1823)	1899	Nathan Banks
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1904	Brooks Fred E.	Huntington
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1904	Brooks F. E.	Huntington
Haematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 1902	1905	Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David Zamparo	Huntington
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze	1909	Summers, T. B.	Huntington

All 808 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chesapeake: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huntington Alloys Rolling Mill	Nickel	Producer
Burlington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Burlington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

18 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Chesapeake in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$40,000	A tree fell through the roof of a single family house on 3rd Avenue. The roof was crushed with damage to rafters and ceiling joists.
June 2015	Hail	Chesapeake	$10,000	Quarter size hail fell.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$7,000	A tree fell on a parked car.
May 2003	Hail	Chesapeake	$5,000	A few vehicles were damaged by golf ball size hail.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$5,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$2,000	Trees and a power line were downed in Chesapeake.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$750	A tree and adjacent power lines were blown down near the intersection of County Road 123 and Private Drive 142 in Chesapeake.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$250	A tree was blown down into the roadway at the intersection of Robinson Road and Thompson Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	$250	One tree was blown down near the town of Chesapeake.
April 2025	Flood	Chesapeake	-	A water rescue occurred for a vehicle that became submerged up to the roof near the intersection of Township Road 278 and Township Road 158 in Chesapeake.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesapeake	-	Trees fell onto power lines.
June 2019	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Chesapeake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Symmes Park	0.4 miles	20
Crescent Lake	0.7 miles	20
Rockwood	1.0 miles	20
Brentwood	1.4 miles	20
Corryville	2.0 miles	20
Sybene	2.5 miles	23
Howell	2.8 miles	23
Lockdale	2.9 miles	23

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 Chesapeake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028053	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 1056797. 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.