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

Girard, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44420. It stands on Little Girard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Girard quadrangle. 9,603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Girard within Trumbull County

Population over time

2 figures

Girard fell from 9,958 to 9,603 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	9,958
2020	9,603	-355 (-4%)

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 Girard, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Girard, surveyed 1906

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 82 shown

Museums hold 82 specimens collected within 10 miles of Girard between 1890 and 1975: 73 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, Berry, R., C CLARKE 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
Alternaria panax Whetzel	1909	W.P. Warren	Garden of Warren
Equisetum fluviatile L.	1936	Howard, R.	Warren.
Lycopodium lucidulum Michx.	1936	Howard, R.	Warren.
Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.	1890	Ingraham, R.H.	Niles
Desmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood	1892	Ingraham, R.H.	Ailer
Hemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 1899	1893	not recorded	Evansville
Metatrichia vesparia (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek. ex G.W.Martin & Alexop., 1969	1893	not recorded	Ohio: Evansville
Neogale Gray, 1865	1894	William Harvey Brown	WARREN
Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)	1899	R. C. Osburn	Fowlerville
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1905	not recorded	Niles
Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864	1911	Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.)	Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A.
Panicum rigidulum subsp. elongatum (Scribn.) Freckmann & Lelong	1913	Hopkins, L.S.	Warren

All 82 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Girard: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Niles Plant Ti	Titanium, Metal	Plant	1950
	Republic Steel/ Niles, Ohio	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Trumbull County

Storms nearby

13 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Girard in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Girard	$150,000	An EF0 tornado touched down in Girard, Ohio at the intersection of Park Avenue and Smithsonian Street. Maximum winds were estimated between 60 and 70 mph. The storm tracked east northeast at approximately 25 mph to Warner Road east of Loganway Avenue. The tornado was in contact with the ground intermittently during its 4 mile path length from Girard across Liberty Township. The damage path was generally 25 yards in width. Most of the damage occurred to trees. Trees were snapped and uprooted. At least 4 cars were damaged by falling trees. Branches were downed. Minor damage was also observed to roof tops, chimneys, signs and out buildings.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$35,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A couple homes sustained damage from fallen trees.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Girard	$30,000	Heavy rain fell over southern portions of Trumbull County on the afternoon of the 2nd. Rainfall rates were measured at around 4/hr earlier in the storm, and conditions appeared to be unchanged when the storm moved over the town of Girard. The torrential rain caused flooding on U.S. Route 422 at Smithsonian Street, Kline and Broadway, Patricia Drive and Park Avenue. There was also considerable basement and yard flooding.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed nine large trees along Woodlawn Avenue.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$15,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts snapped at least nine trees on Woodland Avenue.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees north of Girard near Lake Girard.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed six large trees.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$7,000	A trained weather spotter reported a utility pole and numerous 3 inch diameter limbs down. Power outages were also reported in the area.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	$1,000	A tree was blown down onto power lines along Marshall Road in McDonald.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	-	Two trees downed in Girard.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	-	Numerous trees downed and one power pole downed about one-mile ESE of Girard.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard	-	Two large trees uprooted and multiple large tree limbs snapped in Girard.
June 1998	Hail	Girard	-	Large hail fell in Liberty Township. Large hail (0.75") also fell at Howland, Warren and Lordstown.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Summit	1.3 miles	15
McDonald	1.4 miles	15
Hilltop	2.0 miles	15
Churchill	2.0 miles	15
Tibbetts Corners	2.1 miles	15
Loys Corners	2.2 miles	15
McKinley Heights	2.2 miles	15
Belmont Park	2.5 miles	15

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 Girard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2208045	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 1048785. 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.