BlockChuckery, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Darby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43064. The Survey maps it on the Plumwood quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1916 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 76 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
8 surveys from 10 printed 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.
- 1916 USGS Milford Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Milford Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Plumwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
25,969 words on this townshipThe History of Union County Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Darby Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Jamie M. Mr. McCloud served the three months' call for troops during the rebellion, s tad ama vf Olga H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio National Guard, and suffered by sickness nearly the whole time of service. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church or Louis Chapel of Chuckery. a MP.
Passage source: The History of Union County Ohio, published 1883.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 361 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 361 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chuckery between 1918 and 1975: 351 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Andrew R. Moldenke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Empoasca fabae (Harris, 1841) | 1918 | H.T. Osborn | |
 | Hydnum erinaceus Bull. | 1918 | Weir J. R. | Marysville |
 | Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Ictalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township |
 | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | MB Trautman | Buck Creek, N Union Township |
 | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1930 | MB Trautman | Buck Creek, N Union Township |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | MB Trautman | Buck Creek, N Union Township |
All 361 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unionville Center | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bridgeport | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Milford Center | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Darby Meadows | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Irwin | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hickory Run | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Milford Estates | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Dipple | 7.4 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 Chuckery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5115870 | 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 1039100. 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.
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.