Lake County
Ecoregions: Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests (54%) and Southern Great Lakes forests (46%)
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests. Shares of the land area. Ecoregions: RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017) (opens in a new tab), CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
Watersheds: Ashtabula-Chagrin, Grand and Lake Erie
Parks: Cleveland Metroparks, Headlands Beach State Park and Lake Metroparks
City and suburbs: Cleveland
Land cover: developed 52%, forest 35%, farmland 11%
Water covers 76% of the county.
Elevation: 570 to 1,250 ft, mostly around 710 ft (174–380 m)
Land cover as shares of the land area. Land cover: USGS Annual NLCD, 2025 (opens in a new tab). Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program (opens in a new tab)
Warmth so far: Not available yet.
- species with a result
- 374
- records, 2016 to 2025
- 29,200
Lake County at a glance
Darker weeks have more of a group's species recorded. Shows when people recorded them, not how common they are.
The grey bars show how many records of all species were made here each week, so you can see when recording itself was high or low.
Every species recorded here
495 species
Amphibians 9
Bees, wasps and ants 12
Beetles 14
Birds 96
Showing 48 of 495
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