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Waite Hill, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Waite Hill Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44094. It stands on Waite Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield Heights quadrangle.

Waite Hill within Lake County

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 Waite Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Waite Hill, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Waite Hill between 2003 and 2003, burning about 400 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesMENTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,126 shown

Museums hold 1,126 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waite Hill between 1887 and 1975: 1,074 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman, Aldritch, J W 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 Asplenium trichomanes L.Asplenium trichomanes L.1887Leonard, F.E.Little Mountain.
Specimen of Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1897Jesse M. GreenmanLittle Mountain
Specimen of Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1897AshcroftMentor
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892Collector(s): Charles A. KruegerPainesville
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedWilloughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893not recordedChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Collector(s): E. A. DoolittlePainesville
Specimen of Marchantia polymorpha L.Marchantia polymorpha L.1897Jesse M. GreenmanLittle Mountain
A photograph of the species Melospiza melodia, not of this specimenMelospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)1897Collector(s): E. A. DoolittlePainesville
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1898E.A. DoolittleConcord Twnsp, near small stream

All 1,126 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waite Hill: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Abrasive. 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
Gordon-Warren/ Wickliffe, OhioAbrasiveProducer
Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, OhioSilicaProducer
Quartz Scientific Inc/ Eastlake, OhSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms nearby

3 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Waite Hill in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2015FloodWaite Hill$100,000During the overnight hours of the 12th an ice jam developed on the Chagrin River in Willoughby Hills Ohio. The ice backed up in the southern loop of the Chagrin River just west of the Trailard Drive community. The streets were first overtopped in southwest corner and north east of the Horseshoe Glen subdivision (Trailard Dr.). About 20 people were voluntarily evacuated after the water levels doubled, rising to 15 feet. This is the worst it's been since 1977-78, Chris Donovan, a longtime resident who lives on the east portion of Trailard Drive near the river. The initial assessment of the homes indicated marginal flood damage. The water levels did not reach the first floor of most of the homes.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWaite Hill$8,000Several large limbs and power lines were reported down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWaite Hill-Tree downed along Hobart Road in Waite Hill.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Kirtland1.4 miles16
Willoughby1.9 miles14
South Church2.0 miles13
Brentwood2.1 miles16
Pleasant Valley2.1 miles17
Willoughby Hills2.3 miles17
Reynolds2.6 miles14
Oak Hill Village2.8 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q49370381The 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 1065445. 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.