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

Kipton, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Camden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44049. The Survey maps it on the Kipton quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Kipton within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

Kipton fell from 243 to 209 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	243
2020	209	-34 (-14%)

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kipton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kipton, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1,711 shown

Museums hold 1,711 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kipton between 1852 and 1975: 842 Animalia, 596 Fungi, 240 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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
Cantharellus minor Peck	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Near Oberlin
Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.	1896	Kelsey, Francis Duncan	Kipton
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1899	Ricksecker, A.E.	Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin.
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1852	Drège
Uncinula flexuosa Peck	1872	F.D. Kelsey	Oberlin
Parus bicolor Linnaeus, 1766	1874	Woods, N. W.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Agrostemma githago L.	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin
Cercospora incarnata Henn.	1885	F. D. Kelsey
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1885	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1885	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Medeola virginiana L.	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin
Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin

All 1,711 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Kipton in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003	Tornado (F0)	Kipton	$15,000	A small tornado touched down four miles northeast of Kipton in Henrietta Township near the intersection of Garfield and Baumhart Roads. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 200 yards and had a damage path up to 50 yards in width. One home sustained some minor damage. Several trees and a power pole were downed. Some crop damage also occurred in a nearby field.
June 2002	Hail	Kipton	$5,000	Nickel size hail was observed a mile and a half north of Kipton.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled two trees near the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and State Route 511.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	$2,000	Trees were downed.
April 2026	Hail	Kipton	-	Hail up to golf ball-size in Kipton.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	-	Several greenhouse walls blown out at Green Circles Growing Company in Kipton. Time estimated via radar.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	-	An automated sensor measured a 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kipton	-	An automated wind sensor measured a 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Lorain 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
Camden	2.1 miles	11
Robin Park	3.8 miles	14
Oberlin	4.8 miles	14
Pittsfield	4.9 miles	12
Henrietta	5.1 miles	12
Shiperd Circle	5.4 miles	14
South Amherst	6.6 miles	12
Brighton	6.7 miles	11

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 Kipton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q571220	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 1064946. 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.