Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Camden, 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.

Camden within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

Camden 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. 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%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Camden, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Camden, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 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 1,739 shown

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.

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 nearby

3 since 1998

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.

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
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.