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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.

North Ridgeville within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
201029,465
202035,280+5,815 (+20%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of North Ridgeville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Ridgeville, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,463 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
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.
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
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard1894Kelsey, F.D.Lorain County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aulacomnium palustre, not of this specimenAulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.1894F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)1894Jones, 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 1995

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$125,000Thunderstorm winds toppled eight utility poles and several trees in North Ridgeville. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the area.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$50,000Thunderstorm 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 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and telephone poles.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$15,000The media reported trees and powerlines down in North Ridgeville.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large limbs.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 2020Flash FloodNorth Ridgeville$2,000Lear 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 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a four foot diameter tree.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-A trained spotter recorded a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 74-mph on their personal weather station in North Ridgeville.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Several trees downed on the southwest side of North Ridgeville.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth 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 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Tree limbs downed in North Ridgeville.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Healthy tree split down the middle in North Ridgeville.
May 2021FloodNorth 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 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Large tree limbs down in North Ridgeville.
May 2012HailNorth Ridgeville-Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailNorth Ridgeville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailNorth Ridgeville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailNorth Ridgeville-Nickel sized hail was observed.
June 2008HailNorth Ridgeville-Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2008HailNorth Ridgeville-Nickel size hail was observed.
May 2008HailNorth Ridgeville-Penny size hail was observed.
June 2006HailNorth Ridgeville-Penny size hail was observed.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree which landed on and destroyed a garage.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindNorth Ridgeville-Several trees were downed.
July 1998HailNorth Ridgeville-no account filed

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
Shawville (historical)1.0 miles16
Fields1.8 miles20
Trinity (historical)4.2 miles16
Avon4.4 miles16
Sheffield4.6 miles16
Avon Center4.8 miles16
Elyria4.9 miles16
Coonville (historical)5.1 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 RidgevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018262The 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.