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

Eaton, 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.

Eaton within Lorain County

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, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Eaton, 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 715 shown

Museums hold 715 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eaton between 1853 and 1975: 601 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 45 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
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]
Penthorum sedoides L.	1897	J. R. Watson	Columbia Station

All 715 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Eaton in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2022	Tornado (EF0)	North Eaton	$20,000	A very brief EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph impacted Eaton Township. The tornado damaged several buildings and vehicles as it moved northeastward through an industrial park along East Commerce Way. The damage included pieces of a roof that were peeled off an industrial building.
June 2019	Flash Flood	North Eaton	$15,000	Water flowing into homes in the vicinity of Willow Creek east of the intersection of 82 and 83.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Eaton	$5,000	Multiple calls were made into the local 911 call center reporting down trees.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	North Eaton	$2,000	A few trees were reported down.

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 Estates	0.9 miles	16
North Eaton	2.1 miles	20
Brentwood Lake	3.0 miles	16
Laporte	3.2 miles	16
Grafton	3.4 miles	16
Kingsleys Corners	3.7 miles	16
Columbia Station	3.9 miles	20
Fields	4.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064596. 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.