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

Rocky River, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rocky River City. It lies in ZIP code area 44116. It stands on Rocky River. The Survey maps it on the Lakewood quadrangle. 21,755 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Rocky River within Cuyahoga County

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky River grew from 20,213 to 21,755 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
201020,213
202021,755+1,542 (+8%)

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 Rocky River, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rocky River, 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 2,610 shown

Museums hold 2,610 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rocky River between 1849 and 1975: 2,169 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 133 Plantae, 77 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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 Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
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 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 2,610 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

10 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Rocky River in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 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 2010HailRocky River$250,000Tennis ball sized hail was observed. Many vehicles and a few homes were damaged.
May 2006Flash FloodRocky River$250,000Strong to severe thunderstorms that moved through the area during the mid afternoon hours of the 31st dropped between two and four inches of rain across the county from Rocky River east to Mooreland Hills and Chagrin Falls. The primary locations that received flash flooding were the Rocky River and Lakewood areas. Flash flooding was also reported in the eastern part of the county near Chagrin Falls. The flash flooding caused a portion of I-90 in Rocky River to become flooded with several feet of water making a section of the highway impassable for nearly 3 hours. There were also numerous streets in Rocky River that became flooded with several feet of water on them. Numerous homes were also flooded. In Chagrin Falls, water several feet deep flowed down Main Street during the worst of the flooding. Some roads in the area had the pavement buckled. Water was reported to have flowed into several homes and businesses in the Chagrin Falls and Mooreland Hills area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRocky River$30,000A tree was uprooted and nearly a dozen large limbs were reported down across the area from Rocky River to Fairview Park area. Power lines were also down as many locations were without power.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindRocky River$20,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees in Rocky River. Power lines were also downed resulting in some power outages.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRocky River$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRocky River$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed on tree that blocked Wagar Road.
May 2004HailRocky River-Nickel size hail was observed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRocky River-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds at 60 mph.
May 2000HailRocky River-no account filed
June 1996HailRocky River-no account filed

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
Rockport0.7 miles21
Kamms Corner2.1 miles21
Clifton Park2.1 miles21
Melrose2.1 miles21
Hunters Point2.1 miles21
Lakewood2.2 miles21
Pebblebrook2.6 miles21
Quail Hollow2.7 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 Rocky RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004761The 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 1049132. 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.