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Bedford Heights, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bedford Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 44146. The Survey maps it on the Shaker Heights quadrangle. 11,020 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Bedford Heights within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Bedford Heights grew from 10,751 to 11,020 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
201010,751
202011,020+269 (+3%)

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 Bedford Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bedford Heights, 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 2,390 shown

Museums hold 2,390 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bedford Heights between 1876 and 1975: 2,277 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 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 Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1897Winkler, H.J.Woods, Cleveland.
Specimen of Claytonia virginica L.Claytonia virginica L.1897Watson,J.R. s.n. [1897-04][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Cuyahoga Co.
A photograph of the species Dendroica caerulescens, not of this specimenDendroica caerulescens caerulescens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica fusca, not of this specimenDendroica fusca (Statius Müller, 1776)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica striata, not of this specimenDendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Seiurus aurocapilla, not of this specimenSeiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1877A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081877A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Betula L., not of this specimenBetula L.1888JasliafroCleveland; Lake View
A photograph of the species Cryptotaenia canadensis, not of this specimenCryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.1890R. H. IngrahamMiles

All 2,390 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bedford Heights: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rockside QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Terra Visa Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Terra Visa Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms nearby

2 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Bedford Heights in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBedford Heights$5,000Trees and limbs were downed, some on power lines.
June 1996HailBedford Heights-no account filed

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
Randall0.6 miles14
North Randall1.2 miles14
Warrensville Heights1.3 miles14
Glendale1.6 miles14
Bedford1.7 miles14
Warrensville1.8 miles14
Evergreen Manor1.9 miles17
Maple Heights2.1 miles14

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 Bedford HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q206628The 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 1048505. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.