Chevington Woods North, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Violet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43147. The Survey maps it on the Pataskala quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1907 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
In the 1901 county history
6,886 words on this townshipThe county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Violet Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Violet Township - 6,886 words.
Fires nearby
2 since 2020The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chevington Woods North between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15748 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15924 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 710 shownMuseums hold 710 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chevington Woods North between 1891 and 1974: 702 Animalia, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. A. Petrovic, Caldwell, D.C. Eades 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | Carroll |
![]() | Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | Carroll |
![]() | Allocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924) | 1896 | not recorded | |
![]() | Melissodes denticulatus Smith, 1854 | 1914 | Fattig, P | Pickerington |
![]() | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio |
| Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Violet Twp, Fairfield Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | in woods, Violet Twp, Fairfield Co., Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sycamore Creek, within Violet township, near Pickerington, Violet township |
![]() | Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1946 | not recorded | Blacklick Creek, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio |
![]() | Boleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1948 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Walnut Creek tributary, Sec 7 of Greenfield township, ~0.5 mi W of Carroll, Greenfield township |
All 710 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beals | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pickerington | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Stoudertown | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Woodstream | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Jefferson Woods | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Harley | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Winchester Trace | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lockville Station | 6.9 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.
| Wikidata item Q122539174 | 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 1806801. 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.























