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Sheffield Lake, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sheffield Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 44054. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle. 8,957 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Sheffield Lake within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

Sheffield Lake fell from 9,137 to 8,957 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
20109,137
20208,957-180 (-2%)

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 Sheffield Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sheffield Lake, 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 1,074 shown

Museums hold 1,074 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sheffield Lake between 1853 and 1975: 744 Animalia, 275 Fungi, 45 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 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 Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) MurrillGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1899A. A. WrightOberlin.
Specimen of Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1899A. E. RickseckerN. of Oberlin
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 1,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sheffield Lake: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lorain Plant-National GypsumGypsum-AnhydritePlant
Lorain Plant - Marathon SteelIronProducer
Lorain Plant - U.S. SteelIronProducer
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loraine Loading DockSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lorain County

Storms nearby

12 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Sheffield Lake in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 waterspout. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake$110,000Trained spotters and the Mayor reported half a dozen trees down in the city of Sheffield Lake and along East River Rd. One tree fell on a house on Lake Rd. Downed trees and limbs continued southeast to Avon where a large branch fell on a fruit stand. Spotters in Avon estimated wind gusts of 60-70 mph. First Energy reported at least 14000 customers lost power.
May 2011HailSheffield Lake$10,000Hail ranging in size from penny to quarter size occurred during this thunderstorm.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake-Numerous trees downed in Sheffield Lake.
August 2023HailSheffield Lake-Hail up to quarter-size reported about two-miles WSW of Sheffield Lake.
July 2012HailSheffield Lake-Nickel sized hail was observed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSheffield Lake-Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2000WaterspoutSheffield Lake-A waterspout was observed on Lake Erie just off shore from Sheffield Lake.
May 1998HailSheffield Lake-no account filed
May 1998HailSheffield Lake-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
Lake Breeze0.6 miles16
Crandall2.0 miles16
Beech Park3.1 miles7
South Lorain3.8 miles15
Avon Lake4.1 miles7
Avon4.3 miles16
Folger (historical)4.4 miles16
Sheffield4.6 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 Sheffield LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2263213The 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 1056518. 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.

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.