Linndale, Ohio

Cuyahoga County

39-43918

Linndale is a village (village ) in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located 8.6 km southwest of Cleveland, is 0.09 square miles (0.23 km ²) in size and had (2000) 117 inhabitants, of which 68.4 % White. Linndale is so both in terms of area and population of the smallest administrative unit in Cuyahoga County.

Linndale lies at the junction of the former Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway with the Interstate 71 The municipality extends over several blocks in northeast-southwest direction and is two and a half blocks wide. The northwestern border is the Bellaire Road, the southeast is marked by the railway line. The highway cuts through the area at about halfway up into a northern and a southern half. The only borders the following municipalities in southeastern Brooklyn and Cleveland on the other three sides. The community has its own police station, the competent fire departments and schools, however, are in Cleveland.

Linndale was founded in 1902 by George Linn, who at that time wanted to develop there a politically independent real estate project. The village saw the construction of the railroad a short boom and fell at times of Prohibition into a haven of gambling. Since the completion of Interstate Linndale has the reputation to finance its budget mainly by speed cameras on the motorway. Thus, more than 4,500 speeding tickets were issued in 2007 Linndale what makes mathematically more than 40 per head.

Weblink

• Linndale. In: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University, June 22, 2003, accessed on October 29, 2010.