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

Geneva-on-the-Lake, 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. It stands on Cowles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Geneva-on-the-Lake within Ashtabula County

Population over time

2 figures

Geneva-on-the-Lake fell from 1,288 to 916 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
20101,288
2020916-372 (-29%)

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-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Geneva-on-the-Lake, 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 480 shown

Museums hold 480 specimens collected within 10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake between 1891 and 1975: 359 Animalia, 98 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio

All 480 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Geneva-on-the-Lake in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed over a dozen trees in Geneva. An outdoor pavilion was damaged at a park in Geneva.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGeneva-on-the-Lake$5,000Trees were downed.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindGeneva-on-the Lake$2,000Trees were downed, some on power lines. Winds were measured at 60 mph in Ashtabula.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-Trees downed at golf course in Geneva-on-the-Lake.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-Mesonet station along Olive Drive recorded a 59 mph peak gust from a thunderstorm in Saybrook-on-the-Lake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-A line of thunderstorms produced a 64mph wind gust as they came onshore.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lakegrove Estates0.0 miles17
Buckeye Beach0.2 miles17
Mapleton Beach0.2 miles17
Grandview Park0.3 miles17
Woodmere0.6 miles17
Palmetto Beach1.4 miles17
Elmwood3.3 miles17
Saybrook-on-the-lake3.7 miles17

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-on-the-LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2496958The 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 1064710. 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.