BlockMedina, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Medina City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44256. It stands on Orchard Path Creek. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle. 26,094 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
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Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
On record in Medina
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 12 of 14 shown
H. G. Blake Houselisted 1982
Burritt Blakslee Houselisted 1974
King-Phillips-Deibel Houselisted 1982
Medina County Courthouselisted 1970
Medina Farmers Exchange Co.listed 2018
Medina Masonic Temple and Medina Theaterlisted 2002
Judge Albert Munson Houselisted 1980
A. I. And E. R. Root Homesteadlisted 1975
St. Paul's Episcopal Churchlisted 1982- Jacob Gayer Houselisted 1979
- Medfair Heights Apartment Historic Districtlisted 2008
- Medina Public Square Historic Districtlisted 1975
Every listing in Medina County
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Medina Masonic Temple and Medina Theater, 120 North Elmwood Avenue, Medinafederal building survey, 13 photographs
- Medina Public Square, Bounded by Liberty, Court, Washington and Broadway Streets, Medinafederal building survey, 1 photograph
Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 22 shown
- Roller MillsMill, in the atlas of 1892 to 1897
- American HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1892 to 1902
- Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1892 to 1923
- Union HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1892 to 1902
- Congregational ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1892 to 1923
- Disciples ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1892 to 1897
- Public SchoolsSchool, in the atlas of 1892 to 1902
- Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1892
- Bishop, A. B., Carriage ShopCarriage Shop, in the atlas of 1892
- Carriage CoCarriage Shop, in the atlas of 1892
- Church of ChristChurch, in the atlas of 1923
- Foundry CoFoundry, in the atlas of 1892
Population over time
2 figuresMedina fell from 26,678 to 26,094 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 | 26,678 | |
| 2020 | 26,094 | -584 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
25,890 words on this townshipPioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Medina City Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Mr. Boardman had become a man of some prominence in Connecticut; was elected six times a member of the State Legislature. In 1819, was elected State Senator, and in 1821, Senator of the United States. He occupied his seat during the two sessions of the seventeenth Congress, and having been elected for six years, was a member at the time of his death, which occurred in 1823, at Boardman, Ohio.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
Medina was surveyed into lots, eighty-one in number, in 1810. The first cabin was erected by a Mr. Hinman and brothers on lot Twenty-two. They chopped about three acres, remained a short time, and for fear of the Indians left and never returned; they were said to have been from Aurora. Zenas Hamilton was the first actual settler. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut, November 6, 1781, removed from there to Harpersfield, New York, remained there one year and a half, and as he had previously made a purchase of some land in Medina, he accordingly pursued his journey and arrived with his family October 3, 1814, and went into the lone cabin aforesaid, being hardly a shelter for them until he could roll up another near by, on lot Twenty-two, being a part of his purchase. Mr. Hamilton, with his family of seven or eight in number, were alone for a year and a half, before any other family arrived. They had to fare as best they could. Sometimes they would put corn into a small leathern bag and pound upon the head of an axe, and again shell out wheat and rye by hand and boil it and supply their wants until they could get from the mill twenty or more miles distant. Their trials and privations must be experienced to be realized. Mr. Hamilton had the good fortune to kill a bear almost the first thing after his arrival. During the first few years he killed fifteen bears, besides a great number of deer and turkies.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
Ir^ consequence of his being so fortunate and efficient in hunting, they were pretty well supplied with meat. There pioneers were provided for ; the meat of the bear was much like pork, quite palatable to a woodman. The meat of the deer and turkies was somewhat drier than beef or the domestic fowl but we were thankful for it, and surely had no reason to complainr Mr. Hamilton, at one time, as he approached a large oak tree, discovered a large bear at the foot, eating acorns, and as he looked up he saw the old one with two cubs getting off the acorns. Knowing that those on the tree would come down as soon as he fired at the one on the ground, he prepared himself by taking some bullets in his mouth so that he could load his rifle quick, and immediately shot the larger one at the foot of the tree, then put some powder into his gun, spit a ball in and gave it a chunk on the ground, when it would prime itself, and in that way shot the others before they could get down, and thus had them all but one, in a heap, in a very short time.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
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 Medina City Township - it names this place 80 more 80 times.
Photographs
4 photographs,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 317 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 317 specimens collected within 10 miles of Medina between 1884 and 1975: 282 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | not recorded | |
 | Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link | 1894 | Watson, J.R. | Medina Co. |
 | Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth | 1896 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08] | [label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County] |
 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | unknown | Medina |
 | Halictus confusus confusus | 1885 | H. E. Summers | Medina |
 | Lilium canadense L. | 1888 | E. Barrick | Chatham |
 | Plantago cordata Lam. | 1891 | F. E. Lloyd | Selsville, north of Columbus |
| Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Plum Creek | |
 | Aquilegia canadensis L. | 1897 | Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] | [label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio] |
 | Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson | 1897 | Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea | The Western Reserve. Brunswick |
 | Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
 | Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Lester |
All 317 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Medina: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burbank Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
60 of 103 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medina in 103 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 50 thunderstorm wind, 47 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Lightning | Medina | 1 hurt | A 15 year old girl was struck by lightning while walking across a parking lot at school. The girl suffered extensive injuries and was hospitalized for several weeks. A house nearby was also struck by lightning. The resulting fire caused $100,000 damage to the house. |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Medina | 1 hurt | A 38 year old male construction worker was struck by lightning while working outside. The man was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital. |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Medina | $175,000 | Twin F1 tornadoes touched down north of the city of Medina in Medina Township around 4:20 PM. The tornadoes touched down on Marks Road about a half a mile north of Fenn Road. The tornadoes tracked east on the ground for about one hundred yards. The damage path was about seventy-five feet wide. A pole barn used as a horse arena was leveled. Another barn nearby suffered serious damage to the roof, and the house on the property also received substantial damage. Several other homes in the area sustained minor to serious structural damage with a couple sheds destroyed by the tornadoes. Debris was scattered for several hundred yards around the path of the tornadoes. No injuries to humans or animals were reported from these tornadoes. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $100,000 | A thunderstorm down burst caused a swath of damage north of the City of Medina. Dozens of trees and large limbs were downed along the damage path which was up to two miles in length. A couple roads had to be closed because of the fallen trees and there were scattered power outages in the area. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Medina | $75,000 | Nickel to hen egg sized hail was observed. Many vehicles were damaged by the hail. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $75,000 | As the line of severe thunderstorms moved through the area, numerous trees, large limbs, and power lines were reported down throughout the county by straightline winds. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Medina | $75,000 | Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding of basements, businesses and roads. Many roads had up to 12 inches of water on them. Cottages were flooded at Chippewa Lake. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Medina | $50,000 | Thunderstorms produced a swath of quarter to ping pong ball size hail. Numerous vehicles in the area were damaged as a result of the large hail. |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Medina | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $30,000 | Two trees downed near the intersection of Interstate 71 and State Route 18. One of the trees landed on a moving vehicle. The occupants of the car were uninjured. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $25,000 | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured. Numerous trees and large limbs were downed in and around Medina. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Medina | $20,000 | A tornado touched down in Medina Township and remained on the ground for only a short time. Numerous trees were downed. A downburst may have accompanied the tornado and contributed to the damage. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees across the county. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed five trees in Medina Township. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Medina and Montville Township. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $12,000 | Two large trees were reported down, along with numerous power lines. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | There was numerous large trees and tree branches blown down around Wadsworth. There was at least one tree on a house which caused damage. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | The public reported a large tree down and siding ripped from the side of a house on the southwest side of Medina. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled at least three trees and flattened some corn in a field. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees in Litchfield. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Several trees and large limbs down from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Medina. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Medina | $10,000 | Dime to quarter size hail was reported. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Medina | $10,000 | Nickel size hail was observed between Medina and Hinckley. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees northeast of Medina in Granger Township. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Medina | $6,000 | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $6,000 | A few trees were reported down from severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Medina | $5,000 | Thunderstorms produced quarter sized hail. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Medina | $5,000 | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and a few large limbs. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Medina | $5,000 | Dime size hail was reported. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Medina | $5,000 | Dime size hail was reported four miles east of Medina. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 65 mph. Two trees were knocked down. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Two trees downed on the southwest side of Medina. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Several trees downed in Medina. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were also downed at Seville and Hinckley. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $4,000 | Many large limbs were reported down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $4,000 | A few trees were reported down. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $3,000 | Trees were downed, some on power lines. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds at 60 mph. A 3 foot diameter tree was toppled. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple large tree limbs. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large trees. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Several trees were reported down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | A few trees were reported down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple large tree limbs. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few tree limbs. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb southeast of Medina and a tree in Wadsworth. |
| December 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | $1,000 | A few large limbs were reported down. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | - | Large tree downed in Medina and another large tree downed along Nichols Road just southeast of Weymouth. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina | - | Tree downed in Medina. |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Medina Sentinel | 1888 to 1961 |
What the paper printed
12,514 wordsFront pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1914 to 1921, 12,514 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.
These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.
| Issue | Paper | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1914-07-31 | The Medina Sentinel | 3,535 words |
| 1914-10-16 | The Medina Sentinel | 3,016 words |
| 1914-12-04 | The Medina Sentinel | 817 words |
| 1921-05-13 | The Medina Sentinel | 5,146 words |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamberlain (historical) | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Poe | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Mallet Creek | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Windfall | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Abbeyville | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Briarwood Beach | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Lafayette | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Lester | 4.9 miles | 14 |
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 Medina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q527887 | 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 1061504. 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.