West Chester, Ohio

The 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.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:48000
• 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Chester between 2005 and 2015, burning about 8 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:

• Peoli
• Rock
• Bolivar
• Dutchtown
• Elm (historical)
• Gilmore

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Chester between 1920 and 1973: 65 Animalia, 32 Fungi, 19 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Buker, W.E. 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
	Paxina hispida (Schaeff.) Seaver	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Rock House
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1920	Ortmann, Arnold E	Philadelphia Road
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Big Stillwater Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River, Village of Stillwater, eastern Rush Twp
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Stillwater River, within Washington township, near Stillwater, Washington township
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Big Stillwater Creek, At Tippecanoe, center of Washington Twp
	Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Big Stillwater Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River, Village of Stillwater, eastern Rush Twp
	Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Big Stillwater Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River, Village of Stillwater, eastern Rush Twp

All 116 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names West Chester in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 Tuscarawas 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 1070987. 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.