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

Brook Park, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brook Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 44142. It stands on Colleda Branch Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakewood quadrangle. 18,595 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Brook Park within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Brook Park fell from 19,212 to 18,595 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
201019,212
202018,595-617 (-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 Brook Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brook Park, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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 2,850 shown

Museums hold 2,850 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brook Park between 1849 and 1975: 2,405 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 137 Plantae, 77 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 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 Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
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 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

All 2,850 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brook Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Quarry Division QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms nearby

4 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Brook Park in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Brook Park$2,000,000This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 104 mph, and travelled generally east-southeastward through southern portions of suburban Cleveland. The tornado began near Sylvia Drive in Brook Park, where scattered tree limbs were downed. Metal roofing was torn off a portion of the Brook Park Recreation Center. Extensive damage to trees was noted along the majority of the path with downed limbs, some twisted, and other trees snapped off at the trunk. Numerous trees landed on homes, cars, and downed power lines. A garage with metal siding collapsed near Carol Drive and Middlebrook Boulevard in Brook Park, where damage was also sustained to a neighbor's garage and most of the covered patio was destroyed. Numerous power poles were leaning or downed along West 130th Street. Tornado-related damage continued through Parma Heights and Parma where numerous power poles were leaning or downed in yards and onto homes along West Ridgewood Drive across from the Shoppes at Parma. The path of tree damage continued through Seven Hills, especially along Chestnut Road, with intermittent damage noted through Independence and east of the Cuyahoga River. Extensive tree damage was noted in Valley View along Stone Road, where several large trees were uprooted and some fell onto homes. Strips of siding were torn off many homes in this area and lofted. Some trees fell to the north and northwest along this portion of the tornado's path. The tornado continued into Bedford where another neighborhood experienced significant damage south of Turney Road. Trees were downed onto several homes and at least a portion of a roof was ripped off with damage to a chimney. A new shed that was secured strongly was destroyed. Splattering of debris was noted on homes. Several homes had areas with siding removed and thrown. The tornado continued through Bedford Reservation with damage noted on Union Street and into the Bedford Cemetery. Damage became intermittent before the tornado ended just east of I-480 and south of Solon Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBrook Park$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed at least three trees and some power lines.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBrook Park-The Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ASOS recorded a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 71-mph.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindBrook Park-The ASOS at Cleveland Hopkins Airport measured a 58 mph wind gust.

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
McKinley1.4 miles21
Short Line Junction1.7 miles21
Parma Heights2.5 miles21
Middleburg Heights2.6 miles23
River Edge2.9 miles21
Berea3.4 miles23
Kamms Corner3.7 miles21
Linndale3.9 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 Brook ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928714The 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 1048554. 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.