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Belden, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grafton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44044. The Survey maps it on the Lagrange quadrangle.

Belden within Lorain County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belden, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Belden, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 457 shown

Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belden between 1853 and 1975: 380 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, A. Roberts 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
Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Black River, east of Oberlin.
Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	Lorain County.
Frullania eboracensis Gottsche	1900	Frederick O. Grover
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Leptamnium virginianum (L.) Raf.	1887	M. M. Metcalf	Elyria.
Lilium canadense L.	1887	M. M. Metcalf	Elyria
Caeoma nitens (Schwein.) F.C.Newc.	1889	Wright, A.A.	Elyria
Mycosphaerella maculiformis (Pers.) J.Schröt.	1895	Kelsey F. D.	Penfield
Dunkleosteus terrelli Newberry, 1873 (fossil)	1896	Dr. G. M. Allen
Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Plum Creek, Oberlin
Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth	1896	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Belden in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Belden	$30,000	An EF0 tornado began in rural Lorain County, about 0.5 miles east-northeast of Belden and just north of OH 303. As the tornado moved southeastward, it produced EF1 damage at a farm along Island Road. This EF1 damage consisted of a barn and small outbuildings being destroyed. Farther southeastward along the tornado's path, EF0 damage in the form of a garage door being blown-in occurred at a house along Law Road, about 0.5 miles west of where it intersects Medina Elyria Road. The tornado continued moving southeastward and entered Medina County about 0.3 miles north of the intersection of Neff Road and Erhart Road. No fatalities or injuries occurred.
July 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Belden	$8,000	The tornado started as an EF0 in extreme eastern central Lorain County near the intersection of Island Road and Route 303. The tornado quickly became an EF1 in Medina County and tracked around 7 miles before lifting up near the intersection of Grafton and Marks Roads. Along the 7.3 mile path of the tornado, much of the damage was to trees that were knocked down or uprooted. Some shingle and mainly minor structure damage also occurred. A barn on Station Road was moderately damaged. The max path width was 200 yards and the maximum estimated speed was 94 mph. The tornado was on the ground approximately 7 minutes. Scattered downed trees and limbs observed east of this location was determined to be a result of straight line winds.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Belden	-	Tree downed at intersection of OH Route 83 and Grafton-Eastern Road, about two-miles ESE of Grafton.

Every storm recorded in Lorain 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
Kingsleys Corners	1.5 miles	16
Grafton	2.9 miles	16
Eaton Estates	5.0 miles	16
Lagrange	5.1 miles	11
Eaton	5.2 miles	16
North Eaton	5.6 miles	20
Brentwood Lake	6.1 miles	16
Columbia Station	6.6 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 Belden	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22695657	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 1048510. 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.