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East Cleveland, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in East Cleveland City. It lies in ZIP code area 44112. The Survey maps it on the East Cleveland quadrangle. 13,792 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

East Cleveland within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

East Cleveland fell from 17,843 to 13,792 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
201017,843
202013,792-4,051 (-23%)

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 East Cleveland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Cleveland, 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 4,282 shown

Museums hold 4,282 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Cleveland between 1850 and 1975: 3,850 Animalia, 222 Fungi, 129 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 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 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.
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
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen

All 4,282 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Cleveland: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms nearby

17 since 1997

The National Weather Service names East Cleveland in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout, 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 FloodEast Cleveland$35,000Road eroded by flood waters on Superior Ave and South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$25,000Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of these trees fell through a house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$25,000Many trees down in Cleveland Heights with some falling on homes and cars. The AWOS at Cuyahoga County Airport reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$10,000Several trees were reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Local law enforcement reported trees down in Cleveland Heights. Streets impacted include Euclid Avenue, Yellowstone Road, and Hampshire Road.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Thunderstorm winds snapped a pine tree along Wyatt Road near Forest Hill Park. A couple trees nearby were also downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Tree downed in South Euclid.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Three trees downed in Cleveland Heights. Another tree was downed near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Richmond Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Numerous trees downed in and near Cleveland Heights.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of the trees broke through the roof of a garage.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Two trees downed along Taylor Road, between East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Large tree snapped about one-mile west of Lyndhurst.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-A tree was blown down on Fairmount Blvd.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-There were several trees snapped and uprooted.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the northern portion of the county.
August 1997WaterspoutEast Cleveland-A waterspout was reported on Lake Erie near Burke Lakefront Airport. It dissipated without coming ashore and no damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
East Cleveland Leader1942 to 1970
The East Clevelander1933 to 19??

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
Collamer0.6 miles14
Fairmount1.3 miles14
Five Points1.4 miles14
Cleveland Heights1.5 miles14
Coits1.7 miles14
Bluestone1.7 miles14
Collinwood1.8 miles14
Four Points1.9 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 East ClevelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998878The 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 1064577. 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.