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Oakwood, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oakwood Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44146. It stands on Hawthorne Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle. 3,572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOakwood fell from 3,667 to 3,572 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,667 | |
| 2020 | 3,572 | -95 (-3%) |
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:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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
- 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,730 shownMuseums hold 1,730 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakwood between 1876 and 1975: 1,668 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Osmunda claytoniana L. | 1894 | Winkler, H.J. | Cleveland. |
 | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1897 | Winkler, H.J. | Woods, 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 |
 | Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC. | 1890 | R. H. Ingraham | Miles |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio |
All 1,730 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oakwood: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zircoa Refractories/ Solon, Ohio | Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Leone Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Leone Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Silica, Incorporated Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Twinsburg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
7 since 2004The National Weather Service names Oakwood in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Oakwood | $120,000 | Flash flooding began to gradually develop by around 6 PM as several clusters of thunderstorms producing heavy rain traversed Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. In the city of Cleveland, I-77 had several lanes under water near Grant Road by around 5:30 PM. Other city streets also experienced flooding. I-480 at Ridge Road experienced flooding with two cars submerged in Brooklyn. Street flooding and water rescues were also reported in Bedford Heights and Garfield Heights. The same area was affected by a flash flood in April, where many of the same businesses were impacted though not as severely this time. There were flooded cars stranded in parking lots off of Brookpark Road. Brookpark road was closed for several hours. A few homes had water in their basements.||Doppler radar rainfall amounts were estimated at nearly three inches by 7:50 PM across the county. The majority of the thunderstorms and heavy rain exited the area by 10:30 PM with only light rain remaining. Most flooding subsided by 12:30 AM on the 31st. Rainfall rates were measured around 5 inches per hour at the peak of the storm. Some rainfall reports in the area: Jennings Parkway 3.03, Olmsted Falls 3.30, and Cleveland Hopkins Airport had 2.24. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Oakwood | $10,000 | A brief, EF-1 tornado touched down just east of the intersection|of I-271 and I-480 near Oakwood at 3:23 PM EDT on June 16, 2019.|The tornado uprooted and snapped several trees in the area. The|tornado traveled east for approximately 2 miles before lifting near Glenwillow|at 3:28 PM EDT. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Oakwood | - | Hail up to quarter-size about two-miles SSE of Bedford Heights. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Oakwood | - | Hail up to quarter-size about one-mile north of Glenwillow. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | - | Large tree limb fell onto a car along Solon Road, about one-mile west of Solon. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | - | Tree down on house and power pole down in Oakwood Village. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Oakwood | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applecreek Village | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Cowans (historical) | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Glenwillow | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Falls Junction | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bedford | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Walton Hills | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Glendale | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Evergreen Manor | 3.1 miles | 17 |
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 Oakwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2184774 | 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 1084030. 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.