Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Andover, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Andover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44003. The Survey maps it on the Andover quadrangle. 972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Andover within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Andover, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Andover, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 94 shown

Museums hold 94 specimens collected within 10 miles of Andover between 1895 and 1974: 75 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bogue, E.E., C. B. Hellquist, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Calicium quercinum Pers.	1895	Ernst E. Bogue
Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Williamsfield.; 41.533387 -80.570629
Calicium lenticulare Ach.	1895	E. E. Bogue	Wayne
Dendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)	1895	Geo W. Dean	Wayne
Melanohalea olivacea (L.) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch	1895	Bogue, E.E.	Wayne
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1895	Geo W. Dean	Wayne
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pymatuning Creek, west of Andover, ~3.9 mi W of Andover, Cherry Valley township

All 94 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

31 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Andover in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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 2010	Tornado (EF1)	West Andover	$500,000	An EF1 tornado touched down in eastern Ashtabula County. The initial touchdown occurred southwest of Andover near the intersection of Mann and Creek Roads. The tornado then traveled east northeast for approximately four and a half miles before lifting near the intersection of Pymatuning Lake Road and State Route 85. The tornado moved across the south side of Andover and then crossed Main Street just east of town. Significant tree damage was observed southwest of Andover. A barn in the area was heavily damaged. A warehouse on the southeast side of Andover was damaged and many trees in the area toppled. Several homes in the town sustained damage, mainly from lost roofing or siding. Many cars were also damaged from flying debris or downed limbs. Dozens of downed trees were also reported along the remainder of the damage path. Several boats were tossed into Pymatuning Reservoir just as the tornado lifted. The tornado may not have been in continuous contact with the ground the entire length of the damage path. The damage path was no more than 100 yards in width.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Andover	$50,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several dozen trees at a campground located just south of Andover. A building at the campground was damaged and a nearby gazebo destroyed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$20,000	One tree, several large limbs, and power lines were reported down.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two trees in Andover. One landed on a garage causing some damage and the second fell on U.S. Highway 6 blocking the road.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$11,000	Emergency manager reported several trees down in the Lake Village Campground near Andover. The media confirmed the downed trees with some damage to cars in the park.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$10,000	The Ohio Highway Patrol reported several trees and power lines down near the intersection of Pymatuning Lake Road and Footville-Richmond Road, northeast of Andover.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Andover	$10,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	A few trees and large limbs were reported down.
August 2002	Hail	Andover	$5,000	Quarter size hail was observed.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs north of Andover.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Trees were also downed in Rome and Orwell Township.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$5,000	Trees were downed.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$3,000	A large tree fell across the road.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$3,000	A few trees were reported down just south of Andover. Limbs were reported down across other parts of the county from the line of storms.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$2,000	A few large trees and large limbs were reported down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$2,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	$1,000	Several large tree limbs were reported down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	West Andover	-	Trees downed along Stanhope-Kellogsville Road, between U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 322, in Andover area.
June 2021	Hail	Andover	-	Half dollar-size hail reported about one-mile WSW of Andover.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	-	Multiple trees down two miles NE of Andover.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	-	A couple trees and large tree branches were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	-	Several large trees and branches were blown down in Pymatuning State Park.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Andover	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
June 2008	Hail	Andover	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Andover	-	Penny size hail was observed.
June 1998	Hail	Andover	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Andover Country Meadows	1.2 miles	18
West Andover	2.1 miles	18
Mann	3.7 miles	17
Padanaram	3.7 miles	20
Leon	4.0 miles	20
Cherry Valley	5.0 miles	17
Williamsfield	5.1 miles	18
Richmond Center	5.1 miles	20

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 Andover	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2646414	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 1064328. 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.

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.