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

South Russell, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in South Russell Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44022. The Survey maps it on the South Russell quadrangle. 3,972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

South Russell within Geauga County

Population over time

2 figures

South Russell grew from 3,810 to 3,972 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
20103,810
20203,972+162 (+4%)

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Russell, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of South Russell, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 2,021 shown

Museums hold 2,021 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Russell between 1887 and 1975: 1,992 Animalia, 22 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Dryopteris marginalis, not of this specimenDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1887Leonard, F.E.Munson
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Nocomis micropogon, not of this specimenNocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893WoolmanAurora branch of Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum Salisb.1897J. R. WatsonMunson
Ranunculaceae1897Ashcroft, G.B.Munson O.
A photograph of the species Galba Schrank, not of this specimenGalba Schrank, 18031904Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenChagrin River, Geauga Lake
A photograph of the species Acronicta dactylina, not of this specimenAcronicta dactylina Grote, 18741908Teraguchi, S. (Sonja)OH Geauga Co. Troy Twp. Snow Lake
Galba obrussa (Say, 1825)1908Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenGeauga Lake, second pool nearby
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1908Collector(s): unknownnear Geauga Lake, third pool

All 2,021 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Russell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Set Silica Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Geauga County

Storms nearby

16 since 1998

The National Weather Service names South Russell in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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 2006Flash FloodSouth Russell$30,000Strong to severe thunderstorms moved across northern Ohio during the afternoon hours of the 31st. In South Russell, around 2.7 inches of rain fell within an hour across the area causing flash flooding. Water was around three feet deep in a roadway at one point. A woman had attempted to drive through the rapidly rising water in the street. The car was unable to get through the high water and she had to be rescued by law enforcement. There were no reports of homes flooded during this event.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Russell$15,000A thunderstorm downburst downed at least 10 trees.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Russell$15,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a large tree on to a house.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSouth Russell$12,000Several trees down from south Russell to Auburn Township. Large trees reported down along route 306. Ohio Department of Transportation also reported a weighted barricade blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Russell$3,000Local law enforcement stated that a tree fell onto a gas meter on Addington Court in Newbury Township.
April 2026HailSouth Russell-Hail up to golf ball-size about two-miles northeast of Bainbridge.
May 2025HailSouth Russell-Hail up to quarter-size in South Russell.
May 2025HailSouth Russell-Hail up to nickel-size about one-mile east of South Russell.
August 2024Flash FloodSouth Russell-Road flooding in Bainbridge, including Bainbridge Road and Chillicothe Road at US-422. Yard and minor road flooding near McFarland Creek on Chagrin Road near Westhill Drive.
May 2022HailSouth Russell-Golf ball-size hail in Novelty, about three-miles north of South Russell.
May 2022HailSouth Russell-Half dollar-size hail about three-miles northeast of South Russell.
April 2020HailSouth Russell-Trained spotter reported half dollar-size hail two miles ESE of South Russell.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Russell-Tree fell onto home at 7800 Clarion Drive in Russell Township.
June 2020HailSouth Russell-Hail up to penny-size reported two miles SE of Chagrin Falls.
August 2011HailSouth Russell-Penny to nickel sized hail was observed.
May 1998HailSouth Russell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Geauga 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
Chagrin Falls Park1.6 miles17
McFarlands Corners2.0 miles15
Lake Lucerne2.3 miles15
Russell Center2.5 miles15
Bainbridge3.4 miles15
Beacon Hill4.1 miles15
Briar Hill Corners4.3 miles15
Novelty4.6 miles15

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 South RussellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1888998The 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 1049194. 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.