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Berea, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Berea City. It lies in ZIP code area 44017. It stands on Baldwin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle. 18,545 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Berea within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Berea fell from 19,093 to 18,545 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
201019,093
202018,545-548 (-3%)

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Berea, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Berea, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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 1,108 shown

Museums hold 1,108 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berea between 1849 and 1975: 1,009 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 30 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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 Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
Specimen of Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) MurrillIrpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill1895F. D. KelseyBerea.
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris praticola (Henshaw, 1884)1877A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1879Willard G. Van NameEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1879A. HullEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Setophaga tigrina, not of this specimenSetophaga tigrina (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Astur Lacepède, not of this specimenAstur Lacepède, 17991880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1880A. HallEast Rockport
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Saunders, F.A.LOCNM: Rondeau

All 1,108 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

15 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Berea in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood. 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 2007Flash FloodBerea$2,200,000Heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across Cuyahoga County during the morning hours of the 7th. The first reports of flash flooding occurred in Berea and then quickly expanded into Brookpark. Several roads, including State Route 237 through Berea, were closed. As the heavy rain continued, major streets across Cleveland became flooded. In downtown Cleveland, flash flooding occurred along streets just north of Superior Avenue, especially near the intersection with Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. In this area, seventeen people had to be rescused from their vehicles, and a total of thirty five rescues were performed on other streets throughout downtown Cleveland. Approximately thirty eight residences and two businesses sustained major flood damage. Rainfall reports across Cuyahoga County from this event ranged from 1.74 inches in North Royalton to 3.74 inches in Westlake. The majority of the rain fell in a four hour time period between 7 am and 11 am.
September 1996Flash FloodBerea$100,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBerea$20,000Roof damage reported about one-mile ESE of Berea.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBerea$10,000A tree fell on to a house with damage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBerea$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in both Berea and Parma.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBerea$4,000Three trees were reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBerea$3,000A tree and a large limb was reported down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBerea-Large tree downed near intersection of French Street and Prospect Road in Berea. Numerous tree branches downed elsewhere in town.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBerea-Several large tree limbs snapped and an entire tree downed in Berea.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBerea-Large tree limbs downed in Berea.
September 2020Flash FloodBerea-Sewer lid blew of eastbound lane of W 117th Street with water spilling into the street.
May 2017HailBerea-Nickel sized hail was observed.
June 2008HailBerea-Nickel size hail was observed.
August 2005HailBerea-Penny size hail was observed.
April 2004HailBerea-Penny size 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
Middleburg Heights2.2 miles23
Binola2.5 miles23
West View2.6 miles20
Olmsted Falls2.9 miles21
Westwood Farms3.1 miles23
Vigil3.2 miles23
Columbia Park3.3 miles21
Brook Park3.4 miles21

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 BereaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q818897The 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 1072192. 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.