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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.

Seaman within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Seaman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010944
2020973+29 (+3%)

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The 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 sheet of Seaman, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Seaman, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 county-history sources

26,131 words on this township

The 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 2004

Regional 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4

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
30 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9909
13 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9916
4 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13965
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning19 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 603 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Hebata vitis, not of this specimenHebata vitis (Göthe, 1875)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1925E. L. BraunWest tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus1926Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recorded
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1927Muegel, Harry R.Adams County, Ohio
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1927Muegel, Harry R.Adams County, Ohio

All 603 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Flash FloodSeaman$750,000The gravel from a railroad bed was washed away.
June 2018Flash FloodSeaman$750,000Water rushed over State Route 247 and 770, completely covering the roadway in the gravel from the shoulders, and washing the shoulders away.
March 2012Tornado (EF1)Seaman$200,000The 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 2005Thunderstorm WindSeaman$15,000A mobile home lost its roof to the thunderstorm winds. A couple of trees were also knocked down.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindSeaman$10,000A few trees were downed across the county.
August 2003Flash FloodSeaman$10,000Several roads were flooded with up to two to three feet of water. Voluntary evacuations of flooded homes were ordered in town.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSeaman$5,000Shingles and siding were blown off of a house.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSeaman$5,000Several trees were downed between State Routes 32 and 247.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSeaman$5,000Numerous trees knocked down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSeaman$5,000Several trees knocked down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSeaman$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSeaman$3,000Two trees were uprooted and a power pole was downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSeaman$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSeaman$3,000A few trees knocked down
May 2009HailSeaman$3,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSeaman$2,000A large tree fell onto a house and caused minor damage.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSeaman$1,000A tree was downed.
June 2018FloodSeaman-High water was reported over the road.
May 2014HailSeaman-no account filed
March 2011HailSeaman-no account filed
May 2011HailSeaman-no account filed
May 2004HailSeaman-no account filed
May 2004HailSeaman-no account filed
March 1995HailSeaman-no account filed
March 1995HailSeaman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Mount Leigh (historical)0.9 miles11
Mount Zion (historical)1.0 miles11
Irvington (historical)1.1 miles11
Youngsville1.3 miles11
Tranquility2.5 miles11
Harshasville2.8 miles11
Buck Run (historical)3.0 miles11
Winchester4.2 miles10

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 SeamanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2420859The 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.