Avon Lake, Ohio

Avon Lake grew from 22,581 to 25,206 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.

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1956 1986

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.

• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 1,252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avon Lake between 1853 and 1975: 976 Animalia, 251 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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
	Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
	Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill	1899	A. A. Wright	Oberlin.
	Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	N. of Oberlin
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Nocomis Girard, 1856	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1853	S. Baird	Black River, Ohio, Elyria, below falls
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elygria Ohio. (below falls)
	Pleurolepis pellucidus Putnam, 1863	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elygria Ohio. (below falls)
	Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard	1894	Kelsey, F.D.	Lorain County, Ohio
	Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,252 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Avon Lake in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 waterspout, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 Lorain 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 1048474. 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.