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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- County
- Lake
- Type
- Council-manager
- Council president
- Sean P. Blake (R)
- Total
- 27.99 sq mi (72.50 km )
- Land
- 27.80 sq mi (71.99 km )
- Water
- 0.20 sq mi (0.51 km )
- Elevation
- 630 ft (190 m)
- Density
- 1,707.0/sq mi (659.09/km )
- Demonym
- Mentorite
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 44060-44061
- Area code
- 440 436
- Fips code
- 39-49056
- Website
- cityofmentor .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mentor (/ˈmɛntər/ MEN-tər; Locally, /ˈmɛnnər/ MEN-nər) is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States, located on the south shore of Lake Erie. A suburb northeast of Cleveland, it is part of the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area; its population of 47,450 at the 2020 census makes it the largest city in Lake County.
Mentor was settled in 1797. In 1876, James A. Garfield purchased a home there, from which he conducted the first successful front porch campaign for the presidency; the house is now maintained as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site. The city is home to Headlands Beach State Park, the longest public swimming beach in Ohio.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mentor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.