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

Huron, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Huron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44839. It stands on Huron River. The Survey maps it on the Huron quadrangle. 6,922 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Huron within Erie County

Population over time

2 figures

Huron fell from 7,149 to 6,922 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	7,149
2020	6,922	-227 (-3%)

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huron, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Huron, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 county-history sources

4,953 words on this township

A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Huron Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Township of Huron is irregular in form on account of its bordering on Lake Erie. The greatest length is from east to west, and the greatest width is at the western side where it extends from Milan Township on the south across part of Sandusky Bay and the base of Cedar Point to Lake Erie, whose turbulent and shallow waters wash its whole northern side, and at various points on the shores have dug away many acres of once valuable farming land. The Huron River, which enters the township from Milan and flows diagonally across the eastern portion, emptying into the lake at the eastern side of the Town of Huron, is a deep stream, with rather abrupt, though not high banks.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

The river is navigable for quite large vessels for several miles, and for small boats for a much greater distance. Its mouth forms one of the best harbors on the south shore of Lake Erie, which made Huron an important point and caused it to be, probably, the first town settled in the Firelands. Early travelers coming up the lake in small boats found the Huron River an easy means of penetrating into the back country, and in the earlier times, explorers may have portaged across to the tributaries of the Ohio and found their way to the Mississippi.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

The land east of Huron river, at the time of the first settlement, was covered with a dense forest, about half being second growth and the rest heavy timber. Much of it was white oak, used for ship timber.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Huron Township - it names this place 31 more 31 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,842 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,842 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huron between 1860 and 1975: 1,346 Animalia, 1,207 Plantae, 256 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. F. Satterthwait 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
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1899	F.L. Scribner
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1900	Grover, F.O.	"Dry sandy hillside, shaded
Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
Carduus nutans L.	1874	Jones, G.T.	Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
Apios tuberosa Moench	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Artemisia caudata Michx.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Panicum virgatum L.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.	1896	Watson, J.R.	North Ohio

All 2,842 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Huron: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huron Lime Company Plant	Calcium	Producer
Horon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Huron Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Shinrock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shinrock Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huron in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 lightning, 2 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 2023	Flash Flood	Huron	$2,500,000	Widespread flooding across western and central Erie County, including the cities of Sandusky and Huron, Margaretta Township, Perkins Township, Oxford Township, and Huron Township. Officials estimated hundreds of homes impacted by basement flooding per local media reports. Widespread road closures due to flooding. Some of the roads impacted by flooding include US-6 from the Sandusky city limits to OH-269, Homegardner Road between OH-269 and Bardshar Road, Campbell Street at Pipe Creek, Old Railroad Road at Mills Creek, Bogart Road at Pipe Creek and at Patten Tract Road, Patten Tract Road at Fox Road and Mason Road, Ransom Road at Wood Road, and Hull Avenue at Lawrence Avenue. Huron High School damaged by flooding. Animal shelter needed evacuated due to flooding. Several residents requiring evacuation near Pipe Creek near Columbus Avenue. Cars stranded in underpass on Columbus Avenue. Apartment complex flooded out in the southeast portion of the city of Sandusky. Radar estimated 3 to 4.75 inches of rainfall in a three hour period, with the highest amount along the Lake Erie shoreline from Sandusky to Huron.
June 1996	Lightning	Huron	$350,000	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$50,000	Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated to be at least 60 mph caused damage at a mobile home park in Huron. Several mobile homes were damaged and at least one car port was leveled. Several utility poles and trees in the area were also toppled.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees. At least a couple of roads were blocked by fallen trees.
May 2010	Hail	Huron	$15,000	Half dollar sized hail was observed.
May 2011	Hail	Huron	$10,000	Thunderstorms produced a swatch of quarter size hail. Damaged windows were reported during this thunderstorm.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Huron	$10,000	no account filed
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and some large limbs.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$2,000	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$2,000	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a couple large tree limbs.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	-	Trees, tree limbs, and utility poles downed about four-miles SSW of Huron.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	-	Large tree snapped halfway up in Huron.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	-	Several trees downed in Huron.
October 2020	Hail	Huron	-	Quarter-size hail in Huron.
August 2017	Hail	Huron	-	Hail the size of quarters was observed.
July 2017	Hail	Huron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron	-	An automated sensor at the Huron Lighthouse measured a 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2011	Hail	Huron	-	Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail.
May 2011	Hail	Huron	-	Thunderstorms produced plain M&M to penny sized hail.
April 2010	Hail	Huron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
April 2005	Hail	Huron	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 2005	Hail	Huron	-	Penny size hail was observed.
July 2000	Waterspout	Huron	-	A waterspout was observed on Lake Erie approximately two miles north of Huron.
June 1998	Waterspout	Huron	-	Numerous water spouts were reported on Lake Erie around Huron and Catawba Island. They did not come ashore and no damage was reported.
April 1996	Lightning	Huron	-	no account filed
April 1996	Lightning	Huron	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Chaska Beach	0.9 miles	14
North Palm Beach	1.2 miles	14
Anderson	1.4 miles	14
Grand Forest Beach	1.5 miles	14
Rye beach	1.8 miles	14
Oberlin Beach	2.7 miles	14
Ceylon	3.6 miles	14
Colonial Villa	3.8 miles	12

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 Huron	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q507637	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 1056347. 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.