Painesville, Ohio

Painesville grew from 19,563 to 20,312 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.

The 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.

1904 1994

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.

• 1904 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Painesville quadrangle1:24000

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.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Painesville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Avery Terrace
• Fairport Harbor
• Golfway Pines
• Grand River
• Heisley (historical)
• Lane

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Museums hold 1,323 specimens collected within 10 miles of Painesville between 1864 and 1975: 1,062 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.	1885	Werner, WM.C.	near Painesville
	Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen	1885	Werner, Wm. C.	Painesville
	Periploca graeca L.	1886	Werner, WM.C.	Near Painesville
	Leucodon brachypus Brid.	1864	E. J. Ferris
	Mnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.	1864	E. J. Ferris	Painesville
	Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Discelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
	Orthotrichum stellatum Brid.	1871	H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 1,323 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Painesville: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

The National Weather Service names Painesville in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Lake County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. 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.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 9 issues spread across its run from 1871 to 1872, 70,558 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.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1044274. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.