Avon, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1994

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 5 records

• Avon Islelisted 2010
• Wilbur Cahoon Houselisted 1978
• William E. Hurst Houselisted 1974
• Henry Harrison Williams Houselisted 1978
• Wilson-Falkner-Baldauf Houselisted 2010

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

• Lewis House, Avon Center Road, Avonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Robinson-Fitch House, Avon Center Road, Avonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Sweet House, Detroit Road, Avonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• W. & L. E. Hurst House, Detroit Road, Avonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Wilson-Riegelsberger House, Rieglsberger Road, Avonfederal building survey, 4 photographs

Avon grew from 21,193 to 24,847 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.

• 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000

History of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Avon City. 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. Museums hold 1,391 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avon between 1853 and 1975: 1,074 Animalia, 269 Fungi, 36 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 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
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
	Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
	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
	Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey
	Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
	Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,391 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 waterspout. 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 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 1064365. 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.