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Kirtland, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Kirtland City. It lies in ZIP code area 44094. The Survey maps it on the Mentor quadrangle. 6,937 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Kirtland within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Kirtland grew from 6,866 to 6,937 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
20106,866
20206,937+71 (+1%)

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 Kirtland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kirtland, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kirtland Temple (Mormon), 9020 Chillicoth Road, Kirtland, Lake County, OH
Kirtland Temple (Mormon), 9020 Chillicoth Road, Kirtland, Lake County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

1 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kirtland between 2003 and 2003, burning about 400 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesMENTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,432 shown

Museums hold 1,432 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kirtland between 1864 and 1975: 1,204 Animalia, 149 Plantae, 69 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1885Werner, WM.C.near Painesville
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1885Werner, Wm. C.Painesville
Specimen of Periploca graeca L.Periploca graeca L.1886Werner, WM.C.Near Painesville
A photograph of the species Leucodon brachypus, not of this specimenLeucodon brachypus Brid.1864E. J. Ferris
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1864E. J. FerrisPainesville
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Didymodon tophaceus, not of this specimenDidymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Discelium nudum, not of this specimenDiscelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Orthotrichum stellatum, not of this specimenOrthotrichum stellatum Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 1,432 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 Kirtland: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, OhioSilicaProducer
Mentor Sand and Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms nearby

18 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Kirtland in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Kirtland$200,000A tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph impacted Mentor. The tornado began just west of Dartmoor Road near Mentor Avenue, where large trees were downed. Numerous additional trees were downed as the tornado tracked generally eastward. Multiple homes along Stockridge Road and Middlesex Road sustained damage (e.g. roof and siding damage) from downed trees. Extensive tree damage also occurred at the Great Lakes Mall property before the tornado shifted east-northeastward and damaged additional trees and power lines near the intersection of Johnnycake Ridge Road and Fairview Avenue. Tree damage also occurred in Wildwood Park before the tornado ended along Chillicothe Road, just south of Donald E. Kruger Park.
May 2010HailKirtland$50,000Nickel to walnut sized hail was observed. A few vehicles were damaged.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKirtland$35,000Several trees were reported down, one of which fell onto a house causing extensive structural damage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKirtland$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees across Lake County.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindKirtland$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKirtland$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 1996Flash FloodKirtland$10,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKirtland$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph. A few trees were reported down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKirtland$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindKirtland$2,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindKirtland-Trees down in Kirtland.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKirtland-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to be at least 60 mph.
August 2011HailKirtland-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailKirtland-Nickel sized hail was reported.
May 2006HailKirtland-Penny size hail was observed. Hail ranged in size between penny and pea size and lasted for several minutes covering the ground, and accumulating to around an inch.
May 1998HailKirtland-no account filed
August 1996HailKirtland-no account filed
April 1994HailKirtland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Waite Hill1.4 miles17
Brentwood1.5 miles16
South Church1.8 miles13
Reynolds2.0 miles14
Parks Corner2.2 miles13
Willoughby2.5 miles14
West Mentor2.6 miles16
Kirtland Hills2.8 miles13

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 KirtlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932039The 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 1064951. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.