North Olmsted, Ohio North Olmsted, Ohio Location in Cuyahoga County and the state of Ohio.
Location in Cuyahoga County and the state of Ohio.
Location of Ohio in the United States Location of Ohio in the United States North Olmsted is a town/city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
North Olmsted is a west side suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and is the 8th most populated town/city inside Cuyahoga County.
After the discernment of the New World, the territory that became North Olmsted was originally part of the French colony of Canada (New France), which was ceded in 1763 to Great Britain and retitled Province of Quebec.
In 1806, the vast tract of territory comprising present-day North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls and Olmsted Township was purchased for $30,000 by Aaron Olmsted, a wealthy sea captain.
In 1823 the citizens organized into a township called Lenox. In 1826, Aaron Olmsted's son, Charles Hyde Olmsted, offered to donate books from his father's personal compilation in Connecticut, if the inhabitants of Lenox agreed to change the name of the region to Olmstead to honor his father.
On March 1, 1931, the village of North Olmsted started the historical North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line, one of the first, as well as one of the earliest, municipal transit systems in the United States, which was in operation for over 74 years until March 20, 2005, when it was combined into the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
On March 24, 1966, the Great Northern Theatre opened at Great Northern Shopping Center in North Olmsted.
North Olmsted is positioned at 41 24 54 N 81 54 52 W (41.415097, -81.914366). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.67 square miles (30.23 km2), all land. There were 13,645 homeholds of which 26.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.8% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Moen Incorporated, a fixture and faucet company, is headquartered in North Olmsted. Commut - Air, a county-wide airline, has its operations center in North Olmsted. Great Northern Mall, a 1.2 million ft shopping mall, is in North Olmsted.
North Olmsted Towne Centre is positioned on Brookpark Road near Great Northern Blvd.
North Olmsted has three exits on I-480 inside its town/city limits.
Lorain Road is part of Ohio Route 10.
Lorain Road also contains Ohio Route 252 for a short stretch.
It enters the town/city from North Ridgeville to the west and from Fairview Park to the east.
It then continues through Cleveland, where it is designated "Lorain Avenue" It is probably North Olmsted's busiest street.
West of North Olmsted, Lorain Road joins via connector road with the Ohio Turnpike at Exit 152.
At one time, a section of Lorain Road in North Olmsted was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most restaurants inside a mile radius. Begins at Mastick Road near Brookpark Road and continues north into Westlake.
Columbia Rd enters North Olmsted from Olmsted Township, which is south of North Olmsted.
252 north of its junction with Lorain Road.
It leaves North Olmsted and continues into Westlake where it has a junction with I-90.
Stearns Road enters North Olmsted from Olmsted Township to the south.
It then continues North into the town/city of Westlake as Crocker Road.
Mastick Road joins Columbia Road to Clague Road before closing East into Fairview Park.
Butternut Ridge is home to most of North Olmsted's earliest homes, the Middle School, and Butternut Elementary School (closed at the end of the 2015\2016 school year).
"CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED HISTORY".
City of North Olmsted.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: NORTH OLMSTED".
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