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

Eaton Estates, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eaton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44044. The Survey maps it on the Grafton quadrangle. 1,155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Eaton Estates within Lorain County

Population over time

3 figures

Eaton Estates fell from 1,409 to 1,155 between 2000 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
2000	1,409
2010	1,222	-187 (-13%)
2020	1,155	-67 (-5%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eaton Estates, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Eaton Estates, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 708 shown

Museums hold 708 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eaton Estates between 1853 and 1975: 601 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 44 Fungi, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, A. Woolman 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
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
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1895	not recorded	Rock River, Olmstead Falls
Dunkleosteus terrelli Newberry, 1873 (fossil)	1896	Dr. G. M. Allen
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]
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Lester
Penthorum sedoides L.	1897	J. R. Watson	Columbia Station

All 708 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

11 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Eaton Estates in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Eaton Estates	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a barn in Eaton Township.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Eaton Estates	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some utility poles along State Route 83 south of North Ridgeville. Some trees were downed along Island Road as well.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eaton Estates	$24,000	About 20 power poles downed and large tree limbs downed along OH Route 83, near Capel Road.
May 1998	Lightning	Eaton Estates	$15,000	A house was struck by lightning in Eaton Township.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eaton Estates	$3,600	Several large tree branches and utility poles downed about one-mile southwest of Eaton Estates.
August 2009	Hail	Eaton Estates	-	Quarter size hail was observed.
May 2004	Hail	Eaton Estates	-	Penny size hail was observed east of Eaton Estates near Columbia Station.
May 2004	Hail	Eaton Estates	-	Penny size hail was observed four miles east of Eaton Estates in Columbia Station.
June 2001	Hail	Eaton Estates	-	Dime size hail was reported three miles east of Eaton Estates near Columbia Station.
August 1999	Funnel Cloud	Eaton Estates	-	A funnel cloud was observed just to the east of Eaton Estates near Columbia Airport. The funnel may have been a cold air funnel.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Eaton Estates	-	A weak tornado briefly touched down. No damage was reported.

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
Eaton	0.9 miles	16
North Eaton	1.3 miles	20
Columbia Station	3.1 miles	20
Kingsleys Corners	3.5 miles	16
Grafton	3.6 miles	16
Brentwood Lake	3.8 miles	16
Laporte	4.1 miles	16
Fields	4.1 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 Eaton Estates	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2549110	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 1048686. 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.