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Rochester, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rochester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44090. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Rochester within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

Rochester fell from 182 to 159 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
2010182
2020159-23 (-13%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rochester, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rochester, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 692 shown

Museums hold 692 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rochester between 1852 and 1975: 587 Animalia, 68 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, A.M. Evans 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 Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.1896Kelsey, Francis DuncanKipton
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1852Drège
A photograph of the species Woodwardia virginica, not of this specimenWoodwardia virginica (L.) Sm.1887F. E. LeonardCamden Lake
A photograph of the species Carex laxiflora, not of this specimenCarex laxiflora Lam.1888M. MetcalfPittsfield
A photograph of the species Glyceria canadensis, not of this specimenGlyceria canadensis (Michx.) Trin.1888Steele, E.Camden Lake
A photograph of the species Abutilon theophrasti, not of this specimenAbutilon theophrasti Medik.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Alisma subcordatum, not of this specimenAlisma subcordatum Raf.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Campanula americana, not of this specimenCampanula americana Mill., 17681892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
Carex tuckermanii Dewey1894A. E. RickseckerPittsfield.
Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.1894Ricksecker, A. E.S. [south] of Oberlin

All 692 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Rochester in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2013HailRochester$50,000Hen egg sized hail was reported. Damage to homes, vehicles and crops occurred.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Rochester$30,000A tornado touched down briefly near the intersection of Gore Orphange and Stewart Roads (just south of Rochester) then moved east along Steward Road. Trees and powers lines were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRochester$10,000Trained spotters and social media reports provided evidence of sporadic wind damage in southern Lorain County. Two trees were downed on Bursley Road near Rochester. Trees were also downed on Ohio State Route 18 near Wellington. A tree also fell onto a house in Lagrange Township.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRochester$5,000Large trees downed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRochester-Tree downed about two-miles north of Rochester.
May 2007HailRochester-Penny size hail was observed.

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
Semples2.7 miles11
Brighton3.1 miles11
Huntington4.7 miles12
Wellington5.5 miles12
Camden7.7 miles11
Pittsfield8.9 miles12
Pheasant Run Village9.8 miles12
Kipton9.8 miles12

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 RochesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673097The 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 1061618. 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.