Chesterhill, Ohio

The 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.

1904 2002

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

• Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridgelisted 1999

Chesterhill 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, 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.

• 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 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

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Marion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chesterhill between 2014 and 2019, burning about 22 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.

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:

• Todds
• Joy
• Plantsville
• Westland
• Hooksburg
• Pennsville

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums 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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The 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.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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 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.