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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Beachwood, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Beachwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 44122. The Survey maps it on the Shaker Heights quadrangle. 14,040 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.

Beachwood within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Beachwood grew from 11,953 to 14,040 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201011,953
202014,040+2,087 (+17%)

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beachwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Beachwood, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,958 shown

Museums hold 4,958 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beachwood between 1850 and 1975: 4,519 Animalia, 229 Fungi, 130 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 18951894F. WebsterEuclid
Specimen of Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1897Winkler, H.J.Woods, Cleveland.
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1850Illegible collector nameCleveland.
A photograph of the species Catillaria tricolor, not of this specimenCatillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr.1854G. DixonCleveland, Bousdale Hill
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691860Mudd Wm.Cleveland
A photograph of the species Thryothorus ludovicianus, not of this specimenThryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790)1860not recordedCleveland
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen
A photograph of the species Amaranthus blitoides, not of this specimenAmaranthus blitoides S.Watson1874C. E. O. KuntzeCleveland
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Collector(s): unknownCleveland

All 4,958 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Beachwood in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017Flash FloodBeachwood$2,000,000An isolated thunderstorm developed on an afternoon lake breeze on August 10th. This storm, though small in structure and spatial coverage, had a high rainfall rates. The rain started around 5 pm and ended around 7 pm. The storm peaked around 6 pm where 0.94 or rain was recorded in 10 minutes (rainfall rate of 6.36/hr) in a real-time rain gauge in Beachwood just west of Pepper Pike. The storm total rainfall in Beachwood was 3.26, with an unofficial reading of 4.5 in Pepper Pike. The storm resulted in widespread road closures, flooded basements, yards, garages, and minor flooding on first floors. Over 200 homes and businesses experienced water damage, primarily from backed up storm drainage into basements.
September 2010HailBeachwood$10,000Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBeachwood-Small tree snapped in Beachwood.
January 2019HailBeachwood-Penny-sized hail was reported in Beachwood. This report was submitted via a picture on social media.
January 2019HailBeachwood-This hail report was a picture from Facebook.
July 2013HailBeachwood-Quarter sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Highland Hills1.2 miles14
Woodmere1.5 miles17
Warrensville1.6 miles14
Shaker Heights1.6 miles14
Orange1.8 miles17
North Randall2.2 miles14
Warrensville Heights2.5 miles14
Pepper Pike2.6 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BeachwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q812890The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048493. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.