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Chaffee

Ghost town · Summit County, Ohio

Cleveland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1903, 1:62,500)
Cleveland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1903, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Chaffee is a ghost town in Summit County, Ohio. It is one of 7 former communities in Summit County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 39th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chaffee as a historical populated place on the Northfield topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 41.3209° N, 81.5843° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleNorthfield
Elevation778 ft
Nearest living townBrecksville, OH
Distance to it2.1 miles
GNIS feature ID1058487
Coordinates41.32089, -81.58429

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Chaffee today, aerial view
Cleveland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1903, 1:62,500)

Left: Cleveland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1903, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Chaffee is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Brecksville, OH (population 13,656), about 2.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 778 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Chaffee?

Chaffee is in Summit County, Ohio, at 41.3209, -81.5843.

How many ghost towns are in Summit County?

Summit County, Ohio has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.