Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Mentor Village Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8383 Mentor Ave., Mentor, 44060
When was it listed? 2014-09-10
Category. building
Township. Mentor city
National Register reference number. 14000591 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mentor Village Hall 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/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	MENTOR

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,474 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,474 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mentor Village Hall between 1864 and 1975: 1,245 Animalia, 150 Plantae, 69 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 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.

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 1,474 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mentor Village Hall: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, Ohio	Silica	Producer
	Mentor Sand and Supply Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

46 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mentor, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 waterspout. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	2 hurt	Large tree down in Mentor. Another tree fell on a car in Painesville and caused two injuries.
August 2011	Hail	Mentor	$150,000	Penny to hen egg sized hail was observed for several minutes in Mentor. Much of the hail was golf ball sized or larger. This resulted in many vehicles being damaged.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees in the Holly Hills Development along Cannon Ridge Drive and Brayes Manor Drive in Mentor.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and knocked down some power lines. Scattered power outages were reported.
August 2000	Tornado (F0)	Mentor	$25,000	A weak tornado moved inland from Lake Erie and was on the ground in Mentor for a little less than one mile. Many trees were knocked down with a few homes sustaining minor damage.
March 2020	Flash Flood	Mentor	$20,000	A portion of Interstate 90, a main throughway, was closed between State Route 306 and State Route 615 due to flooding. Several disabled semi trucks that stalled in high water.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees south of Mentor.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$12,000	The media relayed reports of several trees down in the Mentor area.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$10,000	Trees were downed, some closing the westbound lane of State Route 2.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$8,000	Several trees and large limbs were reported down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$6,000	Large tree downed onto car and large tree branch downed onto another car in Mentor.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$6,000	A few trees and large limbs were reported down.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Tree downed onto house in Mentor, which caused structural damage.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a house near the intersection of Center Street and Mentor Avenue in Mentor. Some tree limbs were also down in the area.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Several large limbs were reported down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Several trees and a few large limbs were reported down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Two large trees and several large limbs were reported down from thunderstorm winds.
July 2004	Hail	Mentor	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and a few large limbs.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees on Jackson Street.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$3,000	Several large limbs were reported down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$3,000	A few large limbs along with a tree were reported down from thunderstorm winds.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$2,000	Trees were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
March 2011	Hail	Mentor	$1,000	Pea sized hail was reported with this thunderstorm.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a small tree.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	-	Tree downed along Hopkins Road, near OH Route 2, in Mentor.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	-	Trees snapped on east side of Mentor.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	-	Trees downed in Mentor.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mentor	-	Trees damaged about one-mile north of Mentor. One tree limb fell onto a vehicle.
May 2020	Flood	Mentor	-	Standing water on both SR-2 and I-90 near SR 615 in Mentor.
November 2020	Hail	Mentor	-	Penny to nickel-size hail in Mentor area.
March 2012	Hail	Mentor	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
August 2011	Hail	Mentor	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
April 2009	Hail	Mentor	-	Penny size hail was reported.
August 2009	Hail	Mentor	-	Penny size hail was observed.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Mentor	-	Rainfall of 3.75 inches in less than two hours was reported by a spotter in Mentor.
May 2007	Hail	Mentor	-	Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Mentor	-	Quarter size hail was observed, and lasted for several minutes accumulating enough to cover the ground.
July 2000	Waterspout	Mentor	-	Several large waterspouts were observed on Lake Erie just north of Mentor.
September 1999	Waterspout	Mentor	-	A waterspout was sighted on Lake Erie approximately five miles offshore from Mentor. No damage was reported.
August 2000	Hail	Mentor	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Mentor	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Mentor	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Mentor	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Mentor	-	no account filed
September 1996	Flash Flood	Mentor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Yager, John and Carrie, House	under 500 feet	1994
Young, Benjamin and Mary, House	under 500 feet	1996
Corning-White House	0.1 miles	1972
Mentor Village School	0.2 miles	2005
James A. Garfield National Historic Site	0.4 miles	1966
Mason, James, House	0.4 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000591 in Record Group 79.
Lake County	All 75 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.