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Mayfield, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mayfield Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44143. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield Heights quadrangle. 3,356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Mayfield within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Mayfield fell from 3,460 to 3,356 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
20103,460
20203,356-104 (-3%)

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mayfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mayfield, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the county-history sources

4,547 words on this township

History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names this settlement in its chapter on Mayfield Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In the year 1805 Abner Johnson, Samuel Johnson and David Smith came with their families from Ontario county, New York, and made the first settlement in the present township of Mayfield, then known as survey-township number eight in range ten of the Western Reserve. They located themselves on the west side of Chagrin river, a little above the site of Willson's Mills, built their cabins, and began opera: tions.

Passage source: History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870.

The war of 1812 stopped even what little progress there was before that time, and it was not until 1816 that a school-house was erected in the township. It was a log building, situated on the land formerly owned by Anthony Sherman. It was used for some years as school-house, church and town-hall. A few more settlers came after the war, among whom was Seth Mapes, who came in 1815 and remained until 1827, when he removed to Orange. In 1819 a new township was formed, by the name of Mayfield, the first town meeting being held on the 14th day of June, in that year. 'There were only twenty voters present, and. of, these paiva were elected to fill the

Passage source: History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870.

The first sawmill was built by Abner Johnson and Seth Mapes in 1824, a little north of Mayfield Center. The next year Mr. Johnson alone built the first gristmill in the township on a branch of the Chagrin river, near the site of Willson's. Mills.

Passage source: History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870.

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 Mayfield Village - it names this place 20 more 20 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,507 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,507 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mayfield between 1879 and 1975: 2,411 Animalia, 59 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Walworth, A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G 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
A photograph of the species Lanius excubitor, not of this specimenLanius excubitor borealis Vieillot, 18081879A. W. WalworthCollamen (=Collamer?)
A photograph of the species Progne subis, not of this specimenProgne subis subis (Linnaeus, 1758)1879A. W. WalworthCollamer
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1880A. W. WalworthCollamen (=Collamer?)
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1882not recordedLOCNM: Collamer
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1885Ashpur, J.East Cleavland
Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1885Shafer, J.A.East Cleveland
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1885Shafer, J.A.East Cleveland
A photograph of the species Cyperus lupulinus, not of this specimenCyperus lupulinus subsp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks1886Patterson, B.H.Wade Park, Cleveland
A photograph of the species Betula L., not of this specimenBetula L.1888JasliafroCleveland; Lake View
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedWilloughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio

All 2,507 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mayfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Abrasive. 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
Gordon-Warren/ Wickliffe, OhioAbrasiveProducer

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMayfield$100,000A thunderstorm downburst downed many trees and large limbs in Mayfield. Several main roads were blocked by fallen trees. Power outages were reported in the area.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMayfield$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and large limbs. At least one street was blocked by a fallen tree.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMayfield$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree along Gates Mills Boulevard. Another tree fell and damaged a garage on Woodstock Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMayfield$10,000A tree was blown down on a car.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMayfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMayfield-A downed tree resulted in a road closure about one-mile southeast of Mayfield.
May 2025HailMayfield-Hail up to quarter-size in Mayfield.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMayfield-Several tree limbs downed in Mayfield.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMayfield-Several large tree branches were blown down and damage to trees.
August 2011HailMayfield-Nickel size hail was observed.
April 2004HailMayfield-Penny size hail was observed.

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
Highland Heights2.1 miles17
Mayfield Heights2.5 miles17
Gates Mills3.0 miles17
Lyndhurst3.4 miles17
Richmond Heights3.8 miles14
South Euclid4.6 miles14
Hunting Valley4.8 miles17
Noble4.9 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 MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2604968The 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 1061487. 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.