Ashtabula, Ohio

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The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Ashtabula Harbor Lightlisted 1983
• Ashtabula Harbour Commercial Districtlisted 1975
• Blakeslee Log Cabinlisted 1998
• Michael Cahill Houselisted 1988
• Francis E. Harmon Houselisted 1975
• Hotel Ashtabulalisted 1985
• Col. William Hubbard Houselisted 1973
• Mother of Sorrows Churchlisted 1995
• West Fifth Street Bridgelisted 1985
• Ashtabula Main Avenue Historic Districtlisted 2020
• Ashtabula Post Office and Federal Buildinglisted 2019
• Castle Blocklisted 2020

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• 46th Street Bridge, Spanning Ashtabula River, Ashtabulafederal building survey, 17 photographs
• Ashtabula Viaduct, Spanning Ashtabula River at U.S. Route 20 (Prospect Road), Ashtabulafederal building survey, 39 photographs

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 15 shown

• City HallCity Hall, in the atlas of 1884 to 1917
• Bank, TaneBank, in the atlas of 1889
• Congregational ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1917
• Fish & Silliman, Flour MillsFlour Mill, in the atlas of 1889
• High SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1889
• Howard, IB., lour MillsMill, in the atlas of 1889
• J.E., Planing Mill and LumPlaning Mill, in the atlas of 1917
• Mission ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1917
• Norsted MillMill, in the atlas of 1917
• Noses, H. J., Machine ShopMachine Shop, in the atlas of 1889
• St. Charles HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1889
• Street Publie SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1909

Every atlas business in Ashtabula County

Ashtabula fell from 19,124 to 17,975 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1905 USGS Ashtabula quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Ashtabula South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Ashtabula quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Ashtabula Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ashtabula in 2020, burning under an acre 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:

• Avondale
• Crestlawn Village
• East Ashtabula
• Edgewood
• Gageville
• Green Acres

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,009 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashtabula between 1872 and 1975: 846 Animalia, 139 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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
	Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1903	not recorded	Cuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
	unnamed	1915	Munsell; Harvey
	Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon	1872	not recorded
	Dicranum scoparium Hedw.	1891	J. B. Brockway
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1891	not recorded	Geneva
	Riccia fluitans L.	1892	E. E. Bogue
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	A. Woolman	Ohio, Conneaut Creek
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1893	A. Woolman	Ashtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Red Brook, Harbor, Ohio
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1893	Woolman & United States Fish Commission	Geneva, Cowles Creek
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	not recorded	Cowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
	Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	KINGSVILLE, CONNEAUT CREEK

All 1,009 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ashtabula: 4 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ashtabula County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashtabula in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 flash 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 Ashtabula County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 1 issue from 1880, 5,995 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1048468. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.