Mentor on the Lake is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,131 at the 2020 census.
At a Glance
- County: Lake County
- State: Ohio
History of Mentor on the Lake
Originally part of Mentor Township, the village was established October 22, 1924. The U.S. Census for 1970 recorded the official population as being over 5,000 and thus it became an incorporated city on February 12, 1971.
A vast majority of the land that comprises Mentor On The Lake was originally owned and deeded as the Dickey Moore tract and extended all the way south beyond U.S. Route 20 in the city of Mentor. A remnant of this era is a property known as Mooreland which was once owned by the Moore family and is situated on land that now houses Lakeland Community College.
Mentor on the Lake shares many services with the nearby city of Mentor, including postal service.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Mentor on the Lake, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.