Hambden, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1994

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 Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Hambden township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Hambden 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 1 fire within 5 miles of Hambden between 2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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:

• Bostwick
• Chardon
• Montville
• South Thompson
• Terrace Glenn Estates
• Thompson

Every fire recorded in Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,148 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hambden between 1885 and 1975: 1,016 Animalia, 126 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Clewell, A. N. Rood, A.E. Daugherty 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
	Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson	1885	Werner, Wm. C.	Thompson
	Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Fred Haggart
	Medeola virginiana L.	1895	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30]	[label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County]
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1885	W. C. Werner	Thompson
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1887	Leonard, F.E.	Little Mountain.
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1887	Leonard, F.E.	Munson
	Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1889	Collector(s): F. S. Haggart	No specific locality recorded.
	Cypripedium reginae Walter	1896	J. R. Watson	Geauga
	Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1896	Edo N. Claassen	Thompson Ledges
	Stachys cordata Riddell	1896	Guttenberg, G.	Burton
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1897	Ray Densmore	Leroy
	Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Ray Densmore	Leroy, Grand River, swamp

All 1,148 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hambden: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hambden in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 Geauga 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 1064779. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.