Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 6,937 at the 2020 census. Kirtland is known for beast the in advance headquarters of the Latter Day Saint interest from 1831 to 1837 and is the site of the movement’s first temple, the Kirtland Temple, completed in 1836. The city is as a consequence the location for many parks in the Lake Metroparks system, as with ease as the Holden Arboretum.

After the founding of the United States, northern Ohio was designated as the Western Reserve and was sold to the Connecticut Land Company. The area was first surveyed by Moses Cleaveland and his party in 1796.

Kirtland is named for Turhand Kirtland, a principal of the Connecticut Land Company and believe to be in Trumbull County, the first political entity in Ohio that included Kirtland township. Kirtland, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, demonstrated “both breadth of vision and integrity” in his fair events with the local Native Americans. He was known for his bravery, resourcefulness, and passion for justice. Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland was the son of the former; he helped to found a medical teacher in genial Willoughby, Ohio, and he compiled the first ornithology of Ohio. The bird Kirtland’s warbler is named for Jared Kirtland. This rare species has been documented in the city during migration, but it does not nest in Ohio.

Being less with ease suited to agriculture, the densely forested, clay soiled, high, hilly, land of Kirtland was settled forward-thinking than surrounding townships: Mentor in 1798, and Chester in 1802. Kirtland’s first European settlers were the John Moore family, soon followed by the Crary associates who came to Kirtland in 1811. In 1893 Christopher Crary wrote a memoir of his Kirtland life, which provided a great deal of material for Anne B. Prusha’s 1982 archives of Kirtland.