Seaman, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45679. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle. 973 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSeaman grew from 944 to 973 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 944 | |
| 2020 | 973 | +29 (+3%) |
Then and now
1918 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 73 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
11 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.
- 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
26,131 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Scott Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Scott Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
29 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Seaman between 2004 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9909 |
| 13 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9916 |
| 4 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13965 |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 603 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 603 specimens collected within 10 miles of Seaman between 1866 and 1975: 364 Animalia, 150 Fungi, 71 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
| Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931) | 1903 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875) | 1903 | not recorded | |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1925 | E. L. Braun | West tributary of Beech Fork | |
| Crotalus horridus horridus | 1926 | Watters, G. T. (George Thomas) | Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1927 | Muegel, Harry R. | Adams County, Ohio |
| Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1927 | Muegel, Harry R. | Adams County, Ohio |
All 603 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seaman in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Seaman | $750,000 | The gravel from a railroad bed was washed away. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Seaman | $750,000 | Water rushed over State Route 247 and 770, completely covering the roadway in the gravel from the shoulders, and washing the shoulders away. |
| March 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Seaman | $200,000 | The tornado touched down in an open field west of Greenlee Road, about 1.2 miles northwest of Seaman. The first notable signs of damage occurred to a nearby pole barn, which partially collapsed. The tornado then moved just north of due east, snapping and uprooting numerous trees and large branches along Greenlee Road. There, some of the tin building material from the aforementioned barn was deposited. Additional tree damage continued into a grove along Mount Leigh Road. The tornado then crossed State Route 247 north of its intersection with Mount Leigh Road, about one mile north of Seaman. On the east side of the highway, a roof was partially removed from a single story home. Directly behind this home, two pole barns sustained heavy damage. Farther east, an aerial survey revealed continuous heavy tree damage along West Fork Ohio Brush Creek. The tornado caused destruction of outbuildings and roof damage to a single story home on State Route 770, just west of its intersection with Old State Route 32. The tornado then lifted. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 100 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $15,000 | A mobile home lost its roof to the thunderstorm winds. A couple of trees were also knocked down. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $10,000 | A few trees were downed across the county. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Seaman | $10,000 | Several roads were flooded with up to two to three feet of water. Voluntary evacuations of flooded homes were ordered in town. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $5,000 | Shingles and siding were blown off of a house. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $5,000 | Several trees were downed between State Routes 32 and 247. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $5,000 | Numerous trees knocked down. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $5,000 | Several trees knocked down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $3,000 | Two trees were uprooted and a power pole was downed. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $3,000 | A few trees knocked down |
| May 2009 | Hail | Seaman | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $2,000 | A large tree fell onto a house and caused minor damage. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seaman | $1,000 | A tree was downed. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Seaman | - | High water was reported over the road. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Seaman | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Leigh (historical) | 0.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Irvington (historical) | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Youngsville | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Tranquility | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Harshasville | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Buck Run (historical) | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Winchester | 4.2 miles | 10 |
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 Seaman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2420859 | 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 1058010. 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.


















