Chesapeake, Ohio

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.

1892 1982

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Maplewoodlisted 1977

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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1892 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1901 USGS Guyandot quadrangle1:62500
• 1902 USGS Guyandot quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1976 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Chesapeake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 371 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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.

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:

• Crescent Lake
• Symmes Park
• Rockwood
• Brentwood
• Glenroy
• Hyland

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Image	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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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 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.