North Ridgeville, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in North Ridgeville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44039. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle. 35,280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Ridgeville grew from 29,465 to 35,280 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 | 29,465 | |
| 2020 | 35,280 | +5,815 (+20%) |
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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.
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,463 shownMuseums hold 1,463 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Ridgeville between 1853 and 1975: 1,123 Animalia, 270 Fungi, 58 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Oberlin. |
![]() | Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Black River, east of Oberlin. |
![]() | Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni | 1899 | A. E. Ricksecker | Lorain County. |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1853 | Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1853 | S. Baird | Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls) |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
| Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard | 1894 | Kelsey, F.D. | Lorain County, Ohio | |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr. | 1894 | F. D. Kelsey | |
| Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA | |
| Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
All 1,463 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
27 since 1995The National Weather Service names North Ridgeville in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $125,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled eight utility poles and several trees in North Ridgeville. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the area. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in North Ridgeville knocking out power to as many as 2,000 customers. Limbs fell on a car on Harrison Street briefly trapping the driver. There were no injuries. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and telephone poles. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $15,000 | The media reported trees and powerlines down in North Ridgeville. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large limbs. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | North Ridgeville | $2,000 | Lear Nagle north of Chestnut Ridge. Rd. closed due to creek flooding. On Mill Creek Lane two vehicles became submerged in several feet of water with rescues needed. The observed 48 hr rainfall totals were 3.21 in Elyria. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a four foot diameter tree. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | A trained spotter recorded a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 74-mph on their personal weather station in North Ridgeville. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Several trees downed on the southwest side of North Ridgeville. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Trained spotter measured a 62-mph peak straight-line wind gust from a line of thunderstorms about two-miles northeast of North Ridgeville. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Tree limbs downed in North Ridgeville. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Healthy tree split down the middle in North Ridgeville. |
| May 2021 | Flood | North Ridgeville | - | Flooding caused havoc on several roads in North Ridgeville. Lear Nagle Road was closed north of Chestnut Ridge Road because of creeks overflowing their banks. Bainbridge Rd. was closed between Root and SR 83. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Large tree limbs down in North Ridgeville. |
| May 2012 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2010 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel size hail was observed. |
| May 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| June 2006 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree which landed on and destroyed a garage. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Several trees were downed. |
| July 1998 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawville (historical) | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Fields | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Trinity (historical) | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Avon | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sheffield | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Avon Center | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Elyria | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Coonville (historical) | 5.1 miles | 16 |
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 Ridgeville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1018262 | 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 1065174. 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.
























