Chesterhill, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43728. The Survey maps it on the Chesterhill quadrangle. 276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChesterhill fell from 289 to 276 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 | 289 | |
| 2020 | 276 | -13 (-4%) |
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000
In the 1880 county history
64 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Marion Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Marion Township - 64 words.
Fires nearby
9 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Chesterhill between 2015 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15255 |
| 9 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14665 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 633 |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11486 |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14246 |
| 14 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15108 |
| 28 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15148 |
| 20 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2985 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 230 shownMuseums hold 230 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chesterhill between 1887 and 1973: 208 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Apocynum cannabinum L. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area |
![]() | Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | MB Trautman & RB Foster | W Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Windsor Twp: Stockport, Morgan Co., Ohio |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | 2 mi. S of Malta, Malta Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | 2 mi. S of Malta, Malta Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Malta Twp; Morgan Co., OH |
All 230 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
10 since 1996The National Weather Service names Chesterhill in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Chesterhill | $10,000 | A portion of County Route 80 was washed out. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Chesterhill | $3,000 | State Road 377 near the town of Plantsville was closed in both directions due to flooding. Other county roads that were temporarily closed due to flooding included County Road 56 near Malta and County Road 39 in Westland. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $1,500 | In the community of Chesterhill, a tree was blown down along Buckeye Ridge Road. In addition, several trees were blown down along Route 266 in Stockport. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $1,000 | Multiple trees were blown down, blocking County Road 80. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Chesterhill | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Chesterhill | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Chesterhill | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Chesterhill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plantsville | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Todds | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Joy | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Westland | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Elliott Crossroads | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Stockport | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Wrightstown | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Pennsville | 6.0 miles | 12 |
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 Chesterhill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2669023 | 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 1075570. 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.
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.

























