Amherst
Amherst is a city of 12,000 people in the Greater Cleveland area, near the Lake Erie shore. It has been called the Sandstone Center of the World. Its quarries were an important source of grindstones.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,900 residents
- Description: city in Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “Amherst Corners”, “Amherst, OH”, “Amherst, Ohio”, “Amherstville”, “Amhurst”, “Four Corners”, “North Amherst”, and “Plato”
- Postal code: 44001
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whiskyville.
Whiskyville
Hamlet
Whiskyville is an unincorporated community in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. Whiskyville is situated 2 miles south of Amherst.
Amherst
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.3978° or 41° 23′ 52″ northLongitude
-82.2224° or 82° 13′ 21″ westPopulation
12,900Elevation
689 feet (210 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ZAHOpen location code
86HV9QXH+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 153922443OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Amherst” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمهرست”
- Basque: “Amherst”
- Catalan: “Amherst”
- Cebuano: “Amherst”
- Chechen: “Эмгерст”
- Chinese: “Amherst”
- Danish: “Amherst”
- Dutch: “Amherst”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امهرست”
- Finnish: “Amherst”
- French: “Amherst”
- German: “Amherst”
- Gilaki: “أمرست (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “أمرست”
- Haitian: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Haitian: “Amherst”
- Ido: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Ido: “Amherst”
- Irish: “Amherst”
- Italian: “Amherst”
- Japanese: “アマースト”
- Kazakh: “Amxerst”
- Kazakh: “Амхерст”
- Kazakh: “امحەرست”
- Kirghiz: “Амхерст”
- Ladin: “Amherst”
- Malagasy: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Malagasy: “Amherst”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amherst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amherst”
- Persian: “امهرست، اوهایو”
- Persian: “امهرست”
- Polish: “Amherst”
- Portuguese: “Amherst”
- Russian: “Амхерст”
- Serbian: “Амхерст, Охајо”
- Serbian: “Амхерст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst”
- South Azerbaijani: “امهرست، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Amherst (Ohio)”
- Spanish: “Amherst”
- Swedish: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Amherst”
- Tatar: “Эмгерст (Огайо)”
- Tatar: “Эмгерст”
- Turkish: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Turkish: “Amherst”
- Ukrainian: “Емгерст”
- Vietnamese: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Vietnamese: “Amherst”
- Volapük: “Amherst”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amherst, Ohio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amherst”
- Welsh: “Amherst, Ohio”
- Welsh: “Amherst”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amherst”. Photo: Dkallas, CC BY-SA 3.0.