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

Geneva, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Geneva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44041. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. 5,924 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Geneva within Ashtabula County

Population over time

2 figures

Geneva fell from 6,215 to 5,924 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	6,215
2020	5,924	-291 (-5%)

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Geneva, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Geneva, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 761 shown

Museums hold 761 specimens collected within 10 miles of Geneva between 1891 and 1975: 641 Animalia, 97 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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
Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1903	not recorded	Cuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
unnamed	1915	Munsell; Harvey
Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1891	not recorded	Geneva
Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1893	A. Woolman	Ashtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Red Brook, Harbor, Ohio
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1893	Woolman & United States Fish Commission	Geneva, Cowles Creek
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	not recorded	Cowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
Dendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines	1893	A. A. Bill	Geneva
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Ashtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1893	not recorded	Cowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Cowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	A. Woolman	Red Brook, Harbor, Ohio

All 761 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

23 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Geneva in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005	Lightning	Geneva	1 hurt	A man was struck by lightning while trying to rescue his dog which was also struck by lightning seconds earlier. Unfortunately, the dog did not survive the lightning strike. The man sustained non life threatening injuries and was expected to make a full recovery.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Geneva	$150,000	A tributary to the Ashtabula River came out of its banks on the evening of May 21st after an estimated 2 inches of rain fell within an hour and a half. The small unnamed creek came out of it's banks near the University Hospital Medical Center near Britton Drive. A trailer park was inundated with several feet of water from this same creek, yet the raised levels of the trailers prevented flooding in the homes. A construction site near the creek sustained significant damages to supplies from the fast moving water. Main Street was closed just west of town due to the same creek's floodwaters.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$150,000	A thunderstorm downburst caused damage in Geneva. A swath of damage was observed from near Geneva High School northeast to near the intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and South Myers Road. A house near the high school lost a large section of roof. Another 8 to 10 homes were damaged in a neighborhood just to the west of South Myers Road and to the south of U.S. 20. Most of this damage was caused by fallen trees and limbs. Many trees were damaged along the damage path which was over a mile in length.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$10,000	Thunderstorms winds downed a few trees.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$7,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$5,000	Several trees downed.
September 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$5,000	Trees were downed.
August 1996	Lightning	Geneva	$5,000	no account filed
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$2,000	A few trees were reported down.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	-	Several trees downed in Geneva.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	-	A large tree branch was snapped off.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Geneva	-	The public reported a few trees down from thunderstorm winds.
August 2011	Hail	Geneva	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Geneva	-	Storms with torrential rainfall combined with saturated ground conditions resulted in flash flooding over Ashtabula County. Several small streams and creeks were already swollen due to recent rains and floods, so the additional inch to an inch and a half was more than sufficient to produce flooding. Several creeks came out of banks, with portions of ST RT 46 closed as several inches of flowing water from a small creek near the town of Rock Creek covered the road.
August 2011	Hail	Geneva	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
August 2011	Hail	Geneva	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2007	Hail	Geneva	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 2006	Hail	Geneva	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2004	Hail	Geneva	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Elmwood	0.5 miles	17
Holdlen Hills	1.6 miles	17
Harpersfield	3.1 miles	17
Lakegrove Estates	3.7 miles	17
Grandview Park	3.8 miles	17
Geneva-on-the-Lake	3.8 miles	17
Woodmere	3.8 miles	17
Palmetto Beach	3.8 miles	17

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 Geneva	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1005715	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 1040812. 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.