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

Orwell, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Orwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44076. The Survey maps it on the Orwell quadrangle. 1,533 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Orwell within Ashtabula County

Population over time

2 figures

Orwell fell from 1,660 to 1,533 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
20101,660
20201,533-127 (-8%)

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 Orwell, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Orwell, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 537 shown

Museums hold 537 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orwell between 1890 and 1975: 500 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Acker, G. G. & Class, Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1891Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Cetraria lacunosa Ach.Cetraria lacunosa Ach.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Geum rivale, not of this specimenGeum rivale L.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Sceptridium dissectum, not of this specimenSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1890E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cladonia pyxidata, not of this specimenCladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.1891Bogue, E.E.Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144
A photograph of the species Lecanora caesiorubella, not of this specimenLecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella1891E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Physcia stellaris, not of this specimenPhyscia stellaris (L.) Nyl.1891Bogue, E. E.Orwell
Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1892E. E. BogueOrwell

All 537 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

17 since 1993

The National Weather Service names Orwell in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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
September 1993Thunderstorm WindOrwell$50,000no account filed
June 2014HailOrwell$25,000Golf ball sized hail was reported. Some vehicle damage occurred.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Orwell$20,000Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked a tree down along Central Avenue. The tree landed on a house causing some damage. A second tree and some power lines were reported down south of Orville.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOrwell$20,000Trees were reported down along State Route 322 in the southern part of the county. Trees were also reported down near North Kingsville in the northeast portion of the county.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOrwell$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOrwell$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in and around Orwell.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindOrwell$8,000Several trees were reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOrwell$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOrwell$5,000Several large limbs downed.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindOrwell$5,000Tree were downed and a local police officer reported winds estimated to 80 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOrwell$2,000A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to be 60 mph. One tree was immediately observed down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOrwell$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb.
May 2025HailOrwell-Hail up to quarter-size in Orwell.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOrwell-Trees down in Orwell.
May 2013HailEast Orwell-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2004HailOrwell-Penny size hail was observed.
August 1996HailOrwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Asbury Park0.9 miles13
East Orwell1.3 miles13
Windsor3.5 miles11
New Lyme Station4.0 miles13
Rome4.8 miles13
Windsor Mills5.0 miles11
Dodgeville5.1 miles13
Stoneville5.2 miles11

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 OrwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1892584The 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 1065217. 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.