Berlin Heights, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44814. The Survey maps it on the Berlin Heights quadrangle. 651 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBerlin Heights fell from 714 to 651 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 714 | |
| 2020 | 651 | -63 (-9%) |
Then and now
1903 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Vermilion quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Vermilion quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Berlin Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Berlin Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Berlin Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Berlin Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Berlin Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
6,812 words on this townshipA Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Berlin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Berlin Heights became widely known at one time on account of a small free love community planted there. Only. one.citizen of the township became identified with this movement, the others coming from remote states. It was some time after the first gathering before a colony was established. Their peculiar tenets were taught and disseminated until 1860, when Point Hope Community was established upon a communistic basis, with about twenty members. It lasted about twelve months. A second organization, called the Industrial Fraternity, commenced in 1860, with twenty members, lived about six months. The third, the Berlin Community, or Christian Republic, commenced in 1865, had twelve adult members and six children and lived about one year. Mr. Hudson Tuttle, Berlin's well-known author, in writing of these people, says:
Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.
Several papers were started by the communists and had a brief eareer. The Social Revolutionist, in 1857, by J. 8S. Patterson; Age of Freedom, 1858; Good Time Coming, 1859; the New Republic, 1862; the Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven, 1869; the Principia or Personality, 1868 ; the New Campaign, 1871; the Toledo Sun, moved from Toledo to Berlin Heights in 1875, by John A. Laut.
Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.
Berlin Heights has had a wide reputation, but its growth has been hampered by not having railroad facilities. It has several stores, several factories, a sawmill, a grist mill, a fine school building with graded school, three churches and a hotel.
Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Berlin Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,524 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,524 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berlin Heights between 1874 and 1975: 796 Plantae, 616 Animalia, 111 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. M. Evans 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore | 1900 | Grover, F.O. | "Dry sandy hillside, shaded |
![]() | Carduus nutans L. | 1874 | Jones, G.T. | Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon |
![]() | Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil) | 1881 | D. S. Young | |
![]() | Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous | 1886 | William Trelease; A. Commons | Madison |
![]() | Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel | 1886 | Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons | (a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del. |
![]() | Athyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr. | 1888 | Steele, E.S. | Milan. |
![]() | Carex gracillima Schwein. | 1892 | Moseley, E.L. | Shinrock |
![]() | Catharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817) | 1892 | C. Tuttle | Berlin Heights |
| Apocynum sibiricum Jacq. | 1896 | Watson, J.R. | North Ohio | |
| Aristolochia serpentaria L. | 1896 | Simms, C. | Berlin | |
![]() | Carex bromoides Willd. | 1896 | Moseley, E.L. | Milan |
| Carex digitalis Willd. | 1896 | Moseley, E.L. | Berlin Heights |
All 1,524 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Berlin Heights: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Brothers Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Harris Brothers Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Delhi Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mortensen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Reer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Shinrock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Shinrock Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weilnau Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berlin Heights in 1 storm report between 1994 and 1994: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berlin Heights | $5,000 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Heights Station | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Berlinville | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Shinrock | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ogontz | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Ceylon | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Colonial Villa | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Ruggles Beach | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Oberlin Beach | 4.0 miles | 14 |
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 Berlin Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2219095 | The 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 1064420. 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.






















