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

North Eaton, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Eaton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44028. The Survey maps it on the West View quadrangle.

North Eaton within Lorain County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Eaton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Eaton, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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 668 shown

Museums hold 668 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Eaton between 1853 and 1975: 571 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 40 Fungi, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, 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 Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.1896F. D. KelseyBlack River, east of Oberlin.
Specimen of Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De ToniCyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni1899A. E. RickseckerLorain County.
Specimen of Frullania eboracensis GottscheFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1900Frederick O. Grover
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1853Baird, Spencer FullertonBlack River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191853S. BairdBlack River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191895not recordedRock River, Olmstead Falls
Dunkleosteus terrelli Newberry, 1873 (fossil)1896Dr. G. M. Allen
Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Penthorum sedoides L.1897J. R. WatsonColumbia Station

All 668 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names North Eaton in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2022Tornado (EF0)North Eaton$20,000A very brief EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph impacted Eaton Township. The tornado damaged several buildings and vehicles as it moved northeastward through an industrial park along East Commerce Way. The damage included pieces of a roof that were peeled off an industrial building.
June 2019Flash FloodNorth Eaton$15,000Water flowing into homes in the vicinity of Willow Creek east of the intersection of 82 and 83.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Eaton$5,000Multiple calls were made into the local 911 call center reporting down trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNorth Eaton$2,000A few trees were reported down.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eaton Estates1.3 miles16
Columbia Station1.8 miles20
Eaton2.1 miles16
Columbia Center2.9 miles20
Columbia Hills Corners3.5 miles20
Fields3.9 miles20
Kingsleys Corners4.3 miles16
Shawville (historical)4.7 miles16

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 North EatonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24885240The 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 1065165. 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.