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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.

Chesterhill within Morgan County

Population over time

2 figures

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. 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.

YearPeople Change
2010289
2020276-13 (-4%)

Then and now

1904 to 2002

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.

Topographic sheet of Chesterhill, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Chesterhill, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1880 county history

64 words on this township

The 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 2015

The 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15255
9 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14665
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources633
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11486
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14246
14 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15108
28 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15148
20 November 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2985

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 230 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Apocynum cannabinum L.Apocynum cannabinum L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Campanulastrum americanum (L.) SmallCampanulastrum americanum (L.) Small1963William G. Gambill Jr.; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927MB Trautman & RB FosterW Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Windsor Twp: Stockport, Morgan Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)2 mi. S of Malta, Malta Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)2 mi. S of Malta, Malta Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1930Walker, 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 1996

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Flash FloodChesterhill$10,000A portion of County Route 80 was washed out.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindChesterhill$5,000Trees were blown down.
May 2020FloodChesterhill$3,000State 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 1996Thunderstorm WindChesterhill$3,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindChesterhill$1,500In 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 2019Thunderstorm WindChesterhill$1,000Multiple trees were blown down, blocking County Road 80.
August 2009HailChesterhill-no account filed
April 2002HailChesterhill-no account filed
April 2002HailChesterhill-no account filed
June 2002HailChesterhill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Plantsville2.5 miles14
Todds2.7 miles12
Joy4.2 miles14
Westland4.6 miles13
Elliott Crossroads5.1 miles13
Stockport5.7 miles12
Wrightstown5.8 miles14
Pennsville6.0 miles12

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 ChesterhillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669023The 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.