BlockCamden, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Camden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44074. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle. 1,508 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1908 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1908 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCamden fell from 1,667 to 1,508 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,667 | |
| 2020 | 1,508 | -159 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS New London quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Camden township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Game
Game of the smaller kinds was very abundant before the hunters became too numerous. It cannot be positively stated that any old bears were killed in the township after the settlement was begun; but there is a vague tradition to the effect that Solomon Root and Joseph Ross once found two in a whitewood tree in the southwest part of the town, and killed them.
In the county-history sources
77,821 words on this townshipHistory of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Camden Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Like all of the other townships in the nineteenth range, Camden was originally laid off in tracts, and the territory included within its present limits was annexed to other townships for purposes of equalization. These tracts extended from east to west across towards Lake Erie. The township, as at present constituted, contains two tiers of lots (as subdivided) in the northern part of tract number eight and the whole of tracts number nine, ten and eleven, together with the surplus lands lying west of said tracts.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
When the first settlement of Camden was made, the territory, at present included in its bounds, belonged to Henrietta and Brighton, the dividing line between those townships being what is now the east and west center road through Camden. As the township was not settled until several years later than those adjoining, the pioneers had no experience with the Indians. 'The red man had retreated before the vanguard of the great advancing hosts of civilization and left but faint traces of his presence in the forest, which Leonard Clark invaded in 1829. Clark might be more properly termed a pioneer than a settler. He remained but two years and then passed on, in all probability, to some point farther west, where he may have remained a longer time. cabin on lot twenty-five, tract eleven, and cleared off three or four acres in lot twenty-six. Clark brought with him his family and his father-in-law, Moses Pike.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
Herod Pike, a son of Moses Pike, moved his family into a log cabin upon lot fifteen, tract eleven, in 1831. Moses Pike lived with his son after the departure of Leonard Clark, and the two, working together, chopped and cleared three or four acres which they sowed in wheat in the year 1832. Herod and his wife Eliza left soon after this, but the father staid to harvest the wheat which he and his son had sown. When the crop had been secured in the summer of 1833, he, too, took his departure, going to Henrietta, where he remained for several years. He returned, however, to Camden, and lived there toa good old age.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Camden Township - it names this place 34 more 34 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,739 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,739 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camden between 1852 and 1975: 938 Animalia, 562 Fungi, 207 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cantharellus minor Peck | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | Near Oberlin |
 | Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr. | 1896 | Kelsey, Francis Duncan | Kipton |
 | Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt | 1899 | Ricksecker, A.E. | Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin. |
 | Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. | 1852 | Drège | |
| Uncinula flexuosa Peck | 1872 | F.D. Kelsey | Oberlin | |
 | Parus bicolor Linnaeus, 1766 | 1874 | Woods, N. W. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Agrostemma githago L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Cercospora incarnata Henn. | 1885 | F. D. Kelsey | |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
All 1,739 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Lightning | Camden | $600,000 | Lightning struck and the ensuing fire destroyed a church. |
| September 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Camden | $25,000 | This very brief EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 75-mph began just west of Gore Orphanage Road in Kipton. As the tornado moved northeastward, it removed portions of metal siding and roofing at a farmstead. Among the metal debris, some was twisted, some was blown into a separate structure's west side at the farmstead, and some was scattered northeastward into a field east of Gore Orphanage Road. The tornado dissipated soon after crossing the aforementioned road. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camden | - | The mesonet station CW9769 near Kipton measured a 55 knot wind gust. |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipton | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Pittsfield | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Brighton | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Robin Park | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Oberlin | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Shiperd Circle | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Wellington | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Henrietta | 7.2 miles | 12 |
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 Camden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5025829 | 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 1038651. 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.