Amherst is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located 28 miles (45 km) west of Cleveland. The population was 12,681 at the 2020 census.

The indigenous village, which eventually became known as Amherst, was established/founded by opportunist settler Jacob Shupe (who came to this Place in 1811; however, what would become the specific “downtown” area was arranged by Josiah Harris in 1818), although the native tiny village was first known single-handedly as “Amherst Corners” in the early-1830s. When the village-plat was officially recorded in 1836, it was simply named the “town plat of Amherst”, but became “Amherstville” circa-1839, and was well ahead changed to “North Amherst”, until finally again simply ‘Amherst’ in 1909. (The native 1820s postal-name of the village’s first post-office was “Plato”; and the village’s post-office retained that postal-name into the 1840s, even after the local-government herald of the village officially became ‘Amherstville’ by 1840.)

The village is often said to have had its beginnings as to the front as 1811, because estate which was approved by speculator Jacob Shupe, in the “Beaver Creek Settlement” (about a mile north of the superior village site), was eventually included into the Amherst city-limits. Shupe’s pioneering efforts within the township, which included constructing his own grist-mill/saw-mill and distillery, certainly added to the area’s wisdom for higher pioneers to have the same opinion here).
By the latter 1800s, Amherst acquired the title Sandstone Center of the World.^[A]
Many in advance buildings are build up of original sandstone, and the quarries were then an important source of grindstones. There were nine sandstone quarries in the area operating at the zenith of production. Cleveland Quarries Company, established in 1868, no longer quarries in Amherst but is still actively quarrying Berea Sandstone.

Amherst, part of the Greater Cleveland area, is located at 41°24′0″N 82°13′34″W / 41.40000°N 82.22611°W / 41.40000; -82.22611 (41.399993, -82.226201). The height is 689 feet (210 m) above sea level. Amherst is located 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Lake Erie.
According to the 2010 census, the city has a total Place of 7.12 square miles (18.4 km²), of which 7.06 square miles (18.3 km) (or 99.16%) is home and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km²) (or 0.84%) is water.