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

Bratenahl, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bratenahl Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44108. It stands on Doan Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland North quadrangle. 1,430 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Bratenahl within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Bratenahl grew from 1,197 to 1,430 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
20101,197
20201,430+233 (+19%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bratenahl, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bratenahl, surveyed 1901

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 3,488 shown

Museums hold 3,488 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bratenahl between 1849 and 1975: 3,079 Animalia, 220 Fungi, 110 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 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 Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
Boraginaceae1850not recordedCleveland.
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 Villosa iris, not of this specimenVillosa iris (I.Lea, 1829)1863H. Elliott
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland

All 3,488 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bratenahl: 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Graphite, Antimony, Tungsten. 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
Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, OhioZirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, MolybdenumUnknown
General Electric/ Euclid, OhioTungstenUnknown
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Ohio Carbon Cleveland PlantGraphiteUnknown
Harshaw Chemicals/ Cleveland, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Lincoln Electric/ Cleveland, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Sherwood Refract.,Cleveland PlantZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms nearby

8 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Bratenahl in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 2020Flash FloodBratenahl$100,000Doan Brook flows from Shaker Lakes through the University Circle in eastern Cleveland. Reports of upwards of 4.09 had fallen across the small and mainly urban watershed on the morning of Labor Day, causing an upstream reservoir the Horseshoe Lake Dam in Shaker Height to overtop. Horseshoe Lake, a high hazard dam, had been constructed in 1852 and in 2019 had been drained after being designated at structurally deficient by Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Despite being near empty the lake was able to fill and overtop on Labor Day after a basin average of 4 inches of rain fell. Concerns were raised by Emergency Management that the earthen dam could erode and collapse from the overtopping, however ultimately the dam held. ||The additional flows from the lake and the urban runoff caused Doan Brook to flood through the watershed from the intersection of Coventry Road and North Park Blvd and the Cleveland Cultural Gardens along MLK Parkway. Swift water rescue team deployed for multiple vehicles stuck in flowing flood waters along MLK Parkway. A USGS stream gage on Doan Brook crested at 11.39 feet at 10:55 AM with peak flows between a 50 and 100 year flood. Damage included multiple flooded cars and road washout.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBratenahl$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees on the east side of Cleveland.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBratenahl$20,000Numerous trees downed at and just east of the wastewater treatment plant in Bratenahl, and minor roof damage occurred at a nearby apartment building.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBratenahl$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree near the intersection of East 98th Street and Parkgate Avenue.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBratenahl-Large tree limbs downed in Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBratenahl-Large tree limb downed near Northeast Yacht Club in Bratenahl area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBratenahl-Tree downed along I-90 west in Bratenahl area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBratenahl-Large tree fell onto vehicle along Hanna Lane in Bratenahl.

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
Glenville0.8 miles14
Coits1.4 miles14
Poznan1.6 miles14
Hough2.2 miles14
East Cleveland2.6 miles14
Doans Corners2.7 miles14
Little Italy2.8 miles14
Five Points2.8 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 BratenahlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q899590The 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 1048543. 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.