BlockKipton, 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.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The 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.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
On record in Kipton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Union Churchlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresKipton 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Vermilion quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Kipton quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Kipton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Camden township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Game
Game of the smaller kinds was very abundant before the hunters became too numerous. It cannot be positively stated that any old bears were killed in the township after the settlement was begun; but there is a vague tradition to the effect that Solomon Root and Joseph Ross once found two in a whitewood tree in the southwest part of the town, and killed them.
In the county-history sources
77,821 words on this townshipHistory of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Camden Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
John D. Williams and his wife, Jane, from the vicinity of Cuyuga Lake, New York, settled upon lots twenty-five and twenty-six, tract eleven, in 1836, Elisha C. now lives upon lot twenty-three, same tract. S. B. is in Kipton village. John W. and Wilson are also residents of the township. Mary Jane lives upon the old place. The only other living member of the family of brothers and sisters is Heman. Albert R. died in 1878. Clarissa and Minerva are also dead.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
The first log cabin that was built was the handiwork of Leonard Clark, and was raised by him upon lot number twenty-five in tract eleven, in the year 1829. The first framed dwelling was built in the year 1837 on lot number twelve in tract ten, by Roswell 3ubcock. It was not finished immediately, however, William Hawkins moved it to the adjoining lot, number thirteen, and completed it soon after. About the same time Edwin Gager put up a small, rough frame house on lot number twenty-six, tract eleven. A year or so later, Ezekiel Arnold built a frame house on lot number nineteen, tract ten, moved into it and lived there during the remainder of his life, dying in 1840. All three of these early erected dwellings have been destroyed. The first framed barns were built in 1836 by David Wells and Reuben Eddy. There was only a few days difference in the date of the raisings. The first brick building was a store erected at Kipton in the year 1856, by H. McFarland. It is still used for the purpose originally intended.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
During the same year that the railroad was put in operation, or perhaps in 1853, William W. Whitney, the owner of the land upon which the station is now located, laid out a town which was at first called Binghampton upon the town plat. But not long afterward the name of the station and of the post office being changed to Kipton, the little village growing up by the railroad became also Kipton by common consent. Obadiah Bowen built a hotel at the station which he conducted for some time. One room was finished off for a store, and was taken by Hector Taylor, who immediately put in a varied though not extensive stock of goods. The place has slowly but steadily increased in population until, at the present writing, it contains quite a fair sized cluster of dwellings. It has one good country store, kept by Benjamin F. Breckenridge, a grocery and drug store kept by William Douglass, a hotel of which John Sigsworth is "mine host," a boot and shoe shop, a tin shop, two blacksmith shops and other provisions for the needs of its people.
Passage source: History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879.
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 Camden Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,711 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.
| Image | 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 near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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. |
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 | 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.