Mentor, Ohio Mentor, Ohio Motto: "City of Choice", "It's Better in Mentor" Location of Mentor in Lake County and state of Ohio Location of Mentor in Lake County and state of Ohio Mentor (men-(t) r) is a town/city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.
In July 2010, CNNMoney.com ranked Mentor 37th in a list of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America. Garfield purchased a home in Mentor, from which he conducted the first prosperous front porch campaign for the presidency.
The town/city is home to Headlands Beach State Park, the longest enhance swimming beach in Ohio.
The town/city is a primary center of retail stores, ranking sixth-largest in Ohio as of 2012, and restaurants, ranking seventh-largest in the state as of 2012. US 20 (Mentor Avenue) is the primary retail center, which includes the Great Lakes Mall, with additional shopping and strip malls found along most primary roads.
Convenient Food Mart is based in Mentor.
Mentor's school fitness consists of nine elementary schools, three middle schools, and Mentor High School.
Like many school systems in Ohio, Mentor Schools suffered a financial crisis in the early 2000s, but passed a large levy and is now largely on solid footing. It is one of the quickest Ohio school systems ever to emerge from fiscal emergency. The financial problem were due in part to years of accounting fraud.[not in citation given] City government is based on a town/city manager executive appointed by town/city council.
Many bike paths have been assembled in Mentor in recent years. Mentor is titled after the Greek figure Mentor, in keeping with the Connecticut Western Reserve settlers' tradition, as well as that of most other Americans at the time, of celebrating aspects of Greek classicism (nearby Solon, Macedonia, Euclid, and Akron also were titled using that principle). 6.1 Mentor enhance schools Mentor is a suburb of Cleveland and is positioned on the south shore of Lake Erie.
The Mentor Headlands region of Mentor, positioned in the northeast portion of the city, was settled in 1797 by Connecticut Land Company surveyors. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 28.00 square miles (72.52 km2), of which 26.65 square miles (69.02 km2) is territory and 1.35 square miles (3.50 km2) is water. Mentor was formally established in 1855 but established in the late eighteenth century by Charles Barker who assembled the first settlement.
During the time this nickname developed, Mentor's tourist trade boomed due to Clevelanders trying to escape a dirty, industrialized atmosphere.
Post World War II, most Mentor dwellers had cars and could efficiently drive to work.
This caused an increase in middle and working class families and by 2000, about 50,000 citizens lived in Mentor.
The "Official Flag of the City of Mentor" was designed by Brad Frost in 1988 for a contest by Mentor Headlands.
There is a white circle, symbolizing Ohio, with a cardinal, the official bird of Ohio and Mentor, sitting in the middle.
There are six stars encircling the circle symbolizing the 6 initial townships, including Mentor, surveyed in 1797.
Mentor's crime rating is 152 which is in the "Low" range and 139.8 points lower than the nationwide average (high recurrence of crime=high rating) The average temperature in Mentor is 49.90 F which is comparable to the Ohio average temperature of 50.88 F but lower than the nationwide average of 54.45 F.
The annual average for rain is 42.87 inches which is higher than the nationwide and state average, Mentor averages 93.4 days with more than .1 inches of rain.
Mentor expects about 61.25 days with 1 or more inches of snow.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Mentor enhance schools Mentor High School Mentor Christian School (K-12) Mentor Heritage Christian Academy (K-12) Marys Mentor (K-8) This garden was constructed in 1988 and memorializes Mentor's 25th year as a town/city Mentor Beach Park Mentor Dog Park Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve & Marina Located on the shores of Lake Erie with multiple hiking and biking trails giving views to the Mentor Marsh, marina, shoreline, and rare dune plants.
Easily access to walking trails, wildlife, and scenery since it is next to the Mentor Marsh Nature Preserve.
Mentors's first neighborhood park offers fishing piers, hiking trails, and wildlife viewing region Mentor Baptist Church Mentor Plains United Methodist Church Mentor United Methodist Church Mentor United Plains Methodist Church North Mentor Centenary United Methodist Church South Mentor Centenary United Methodist Church Central Mentor Centenary United Methodist Church Grace Church of Mentor Mentor church of Christ "City of Mentor, OH".
"Mentor now sixth-largest retail center in Ohio".
"Mentor's project rises in food, drinking places among Ohio cities".
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Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mentor Headlands "Largely Impenetrable Mentor Marsh is Lake County's Own Natural Wonder".
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