Cleveland Heights
| Cleveland Heights, Ohio | |
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| City | |
Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights.
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| Nickname(s): City Of Trees,Home Of The Arts,Neighborhood City,Sharing City | |
 Location in Cuyahoga County and the state of Ohio. |
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.svg) Location of Ohio in the United States |
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| Coordinates: 41°30′35″N 81°33′48″W / 41.50972°N 81.56333°WCoordinates: 41°30′35″N 81°33′48″W / 41.50972°N 81.56333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| County | Cuyahoga |
| Founded | 1903(Village) |
| Established | August.9,1921(City) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council–manager |
| • Mayor | Cheryl L.Stephens |
| • Vice Mayor | Jason Stein |
| • City manager | Tanisha Briley |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.13 sq mi (21.06 km2) |
| • Land | 8.11 sq mi (21.00 km2) |
| • Water | .02 sq mi (0.05 km2) |
| Elevation | 935 ft (285 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 46,121 |
| • Estimate (2014) | 45,181 |
| • Density | 5,700/sq mi (2,200/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 44121, 44112, 44118, 44106 |
| Area code(s) | 216 |
| FIPS code | 39-16014 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1048605 |
| Website | Official website |
Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. The city's population was 46,121 at the 2010 census. As of the 2010 census, Cleveland Heights was ranked the 8th largest city by population in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area and ranked 20th in Ohio. It was founded as a village in 1903 and a city in 1921.
The area that is now Cleveland Heights was settled later than most of Cuyahoga County. The first road through what is today the city, Mayfield Road, was not built until 1828. Besides farms the area also had quarries in the 19th century. One of the early quarries was established by Duncan McFarland and mined bluestone. This led to the settlement that grew up around the quarry for the workers to live in to be referred to as Bluestone. There is still a road of this name in that area.
John D. Rockefeller arrived in what is today Cleveland Heights in 1873. He had a large estate of 700 acres (2.8 km2) and in 1938 the family donated the land of what is now Forest Hill Park that straddles the boundaries of Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland. There had been quarries within what is today Forest Hill Park previous to Rockefeller donating it to the city.
Rockefeller was not the only affluent Clevelander to come to what is now Cleveland Heights. The Euclid Heights development was created by Patrick Calhoun starting in 1892. It was centered around the Euclid Golf Course and began at the Cleveland city line, covering the area between Mayfield Road and Cedar Road as far east as Coventry Road. There was a streetcar line from this location running to the center of Cleveland's business district.
In 1898 Marcus M. Brown began the development of Mayfield Heights along the south side of Mayfield Road just beyond the Cleveland boundary and to take advantage of the Mayfield Road streetcar. Brown had purchased this land from Emil Preyer and his sister Mary Preyer Hellwig. Emil had operated a cedar mill.
By the end of 1899 the streetcar reached out along Mayfield Road to the old village of Fairmount. In 1903 the village of Cleveland Heights was incorporated. In 1910 Cleveland Heights had a population about 5,000 people. It had a population of 15,396 in 1920 and was incorporated as a city on 9 August 1921. By 1960 it had a population of 61,813.
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