Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Chardon, OH

Chardon is a city in and the county seat of Geauga County, Ohio, and it is the only incorporated city in the county.

Chardon is named after Peter Chardon Brooks, a Boston benefactor who donated the land for the historic Chardon Square.

Chardon Township was established in 1812, the village of Chardon incorporated in 1851, and after the 2000 census pushed its population past 5,000, the village automatically became the City of Chardon on April 29, 2001.

On July 24-25, 1868, a massive fire destroyed the center of downtown Chardon; the square was quickly rebuilt, and the Geauga County Courthouse that still stands on Chardon Square was completed in 1869.

Chardon is the snowiest city in Ohio, averaging about 107 inches of snow a year, thanks to its perch on a ridge about 10 miles inland from Lake Erie in the Great Lakes snow belt.

In November 1996, a single lake-effect storm dropped more than 70 inches of snow on Chardon over about six days.

Chardon is known as the Maple Syrup Capital of Ohio, and the syrup season begins with Tapping Sunday in March.

The annual Geauga County Maple Festival, a four-day celebration held on Chardon Square during the last weekend of April, has marked the county's maple syrup harvest for a century - and has repeatedly had to contend with late April snowstorms.

Chardon's population was 5,242 at the 2020 census, and the city has about 2,160 households, with about two-thirds of its homes owner-occupied.

The Chardon Local School District operates Chardon High School, one middle school, and four elementary schools - Maple, Park, Hambden, and Munson.