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

Geauga Lake, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Aurora City. It lies in ZIP code area 44202. The Survey maps it on the Twinsburg quadrangle.

Geauga Lake within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Geauga Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Geauga Lake, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the 1885 county history

1,855 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Aurora City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Aurora City - 1,855 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 386 shown

Museums hold 386 specimens collected within 10 miles of Geauga Lake between 1893 and 1974: 357 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Bruyne P de 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 Geaster P.Micheli ex Fr.Geaster P.Micheli ex Fr.1941Walters, M. B.25 miles southeast of Cleveland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1893WoolmanCuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
Stagnicola reflexa (Say, 1821)1908Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allenabove Mantua, Cuyahoga River, pool in bottom land
A photograph of the species Coptis trifolia, not of this specimenCoptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.1909not recordedShalersville Twp
Euglesa casertana (Poli, 1791)1909Allen, JohnCuyahoga river, Mantua

All 386 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Geauga Lake: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Auburn Aggregates Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Leone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Treat PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms nearby

5 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Geauga Lake in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 2017Thunderstorm WindGeauga Lake$3,000,000Thunderstorm downburst winds in excess of 100 mph caused extensive damage across northern Portage County. A 105 mph wind gust was measured by an automated sensor in Aurora. Damages stretched from the county line west of Aurora across the northern tier of townships to the eastern end of the county. The damage was most concentrated in Aurora and adjacent Mantua Township. Thousands of trees were downed across the county. Many homes lost roofing or siding and several others were damaged by fallen trees. Many vehicles were reported damaged by flying debris or from fallen trees or limbs. Widespread power outages occurred with full restoration taking around five days. Bleachers at an athletic field at Aurora High School were overturned and destroyed. Several school districts in Portage County were closed on November 6th and some on the 7th because of power outages. Clean up from the storms took weeks.
August 2024Flash FloodGeauga Lake-Road flooding with several feet of water inundating the road in Reminderville on Aurora Lake Road at Trentstone Circle.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGeauga Lake-Swath of significant tree damage from Shepard Road and I-480 in Twinsburg to Aurora Road and South Chillicothe Road in Aurora.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGeauga Lake-Several large trees were blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGeauga Lake-A large tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Aurora2.7 miles17
Moran5.6 miles15
Silo5.9 miles17
Camelot Village6.0 miles17
Streetsboro7.5 miles14
Lakeside Terrace7.6 miles14
Mantua Center7.6 miles13
Freedom Dam8.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064709. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.