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

Cortland, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cortland City. It lies in ZIP code area 44410. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cortland quadrangle. 7,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Cortland within Trumbull County

Population over time

2 figures

Cortland grew from 7,104 to 7,105 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,104
20207,105+1 (+0%)

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cortland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cortland, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 206 shown

Museums hold 206 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cortland between 1893 and 1975: 188 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Bednarik, K. (Karl), Berry, R. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
Specimen of Equisetum fluviatile L.Equisetum fluviatile L.1936Howard, R.Warren.
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1905not recordedNiles
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1905Spencer, L. G.

All 206 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

32 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Cortland in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCortland$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and power lines in the Cortland area. At least one home was damaged by a fallen tree.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCortland$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs. A park pavilion in Cortland was also blown down during the storms.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindCortland$25,000Thunderstorm winds gusts downed many trees and large limbs from north of Cortland east into the Kinsman area.
August 2014Flash FloodCortland$15,000An observer in Cortland measured rainfall rates around 4 inches per hour on the afternoon of the 2nd. This intense rainfall fell for 45 minutes. Radar estimated rainfall amounts were between 2 and 3 inches for the storm total. The impacts included a washout on State Route 46. The Walnut Creek overflowed it's banks and covered portions of Old Oak Drive with over a foot of water.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCortland$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCortland$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCortland$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCortland$5,000Many trees downed.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCortland$3,000A few trees were reported down throughout northeast portions of the county.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCortland$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCortland$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb north of Cortland.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCortland$500Trumbull County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down in the Cortland Area and another in the Kinsman area from thunderstorms early on the 11th.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCortland-Tree downed about two-miles SSW of Cortland.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCortland-Numerous tree branches broken about one-mile northeast of Cortland.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCortland-Tree downed in Cortland.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCortland-Tree fell in Bezetta Township, about three-miles WSW of Cortland.
April 2024HailCortland-Hail up to quarter-size at junction of OH Routes 5 and 46 in Cortland.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCortland-Large tree limbs downed in Cortland.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCortland-Numerous trees damaged in Cortland.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCortland-Multiple trees down along Fallehn Drive and a large tree limb down farther to the northeast. All this damage occurred on south side of Cortland.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCortland-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 2012HailCortland-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2012HailCortland-Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.
July 2012HailCortland-Quarter sized hail was observed.
July 2012HailCortland-Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCortland-A storm spotter estimated a wind gust of 60mph with this thunderstorm.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCortland-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of approximately 60 mph. No damage was reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCortland-Trained spotters estimated thunderstorm winds at 60 mph.
April 2008HailCortland-Penny size hail was observed.
August 2008HailCortland-Several reports were received of hail ranging up to quarter size.
June 1998HailCortland-Large hail (0.88") was also reported near Mosquito Lake.
July 1996HailCortland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fowler Ridge2.2 miles12
Klondike2.9 miles14
Fowler3.9 miles12
Mecca4.1 miles12
Wildare4.7 miles14
Hoagland Corner4.8 miles14
King Corners4.9 miles12
Nutwood4.9 miles12

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 CortlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231996The 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 1056839. 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.