Jaite, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brecksville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44141. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
On record in Jaite
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Jaite Mill Historic Districtlisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
Jonas Coonrad Houselisted 1979 · 0.5 miles away
Richard Vaughn Farmlisted 1993 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed 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 Cleveland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,612 words on this townshipHistory of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Brecksville City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Brecksville City - 4,612 words.
Fires near this place
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Jaite between 1993 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | RIVERVIEW ROAD |
| 15 June 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | KEEBLER |
| 17 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | BOSTON |
| 5 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | GOOD |
| 19 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | STUMPY |
| 15 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | PINE LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,007 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,007 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jaite between 1876 and 1975: 987 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Hall, A. Woolman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Osmunda claytoniana L. | 1894 | Winkler, H.J. | Cleveland. |
![]() | Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.Gray | 1897 | Winkler, H.J. | Cleveland. Moist woods. |
![]() | Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1876 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1876 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Dendroica fusca (Statius Müller, 1776) | 1876 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Dendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772) | 1876 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Seiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1876 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1877 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 | 1877 | A. Hall | unspecified |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio |
![]() | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | not recorded | Cuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1893 | not recorded | Cuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio |
All 1,007 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jaite in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Hail | Jaite | - | A trained spotter reported penny size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brecksville | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Enterprise (historical) | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Alexander | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Walton Hills | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Southpark | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Applecreek Village | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Broadview Heights | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Oakwood | 6.4 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122594335 | 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 1064899. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.



















