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

Olmsted Falls, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Olmsted Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 44138. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Olmsted quadrangle. 8,582 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,520 feet above sea level.

Olmsted Falls within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Olmsted Falls fell from 9,024 to 8,582 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
20109,024
20208,582-442 (-5%)

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 Olmsted Falls, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Olmsted Falls, 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 1,062 shown

Museums hold 1,062 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olmsted Falls between 1849 and 1975: 973 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. G. Newhall, 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 Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
Specimen of Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) MurrillIrpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill1895F. D. KelseyBerea.
Specimen of Lindera benzoin (L.) BlumeLindera benzoin (L.) Blume1895L.D. StairBerea
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris praticola (Henshaw, 1884)1877A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1879Willard G. Van NameEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1879A. HullEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Setophaga tigrina, not of this specimenSetophaga tigrina (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Astur Lacepède, not of this specimenAstur Lacepède, 17991880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1880A. HallEast Rockport
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Saunders, F.A.LOCNM: Rondeau

All 1,062 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

10 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Olmsted Falls in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
May 2011HailOlmsted Falls$90,000Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail. Many vehicles as well as some homes were damaged during this event.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOlmsted Falls$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOlmsted Falls$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees along MacKenzie Road in North Olmsted.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindOlmsted Falls$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree in Olmsted Township and a second in Broadview Heights.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOlmsted Falls$4,000Several trees were reported down.
April 2013HailOlmsted Falls$1,000A National Weather Service employee reported quarter size hail.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOlmsted Falls$1,000A few large limbs were reported down.
May 2011Flash FloodOlmsted Falls-Thunderstorms with efficient rainfall rates moved over Cuyahoga County. Doppler Radar estimated over two inches of rainfall withing 75 minutes fell over portions of the county. Olmsted Falls experienced widespread flooding as streams downtown overflowed their banks. Water several feet deep was reported over Cook Road in the northern portion of town.
June 2007HailOlmsted Falls-Nickel size hail was observed.
April 2006HailOlmsted Falls-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
Columbia Park0.8 miles21
West View1.1 miles20
Olmsted2.3 miles21
Twin Oaks2.4 miles21
North Olmsted2.9 miles21
Berea2.9 miles23
Bretton Woods4.0 miles21
Porter Road Tracks4.0 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 Olmsted FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1009977The 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 1072238. 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.

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.