Parma (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County
39-61000
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is 19.98 square miles ( 51.75 km ²) in size and lies just 11 km south-southwest of Cleveland and 7.5 miles west of the Cuyahoga Valley. In 2010, the city had 81,601 inhabitants. By these standards, it is the second largest municipality in the Cleveland Cuyahoga County, the largest suburb of Cleveland and the seventh largest city in Ohio.
Geography
The metropolitan area has an approximately square shape with a side length of about 5 miles ( 8 km), bounded on the north by the Brook Park Road, in the east by the Broadview Road, in the south by the West Sprague Road and on the west by West 130th Street. This form is interrupted on the west side; there projects centrally, the area of Parma Heights 3.5 km deep in the urban area into it. The other neighboring cities and communities are Cleveland and Brooklyn in the north, Brooklyn Heights and Seven Hills in the east, Broadview Heights and North Royalton in the south and Middleburg Heights and Brook Park to the west.
Economy and infrastructure
In Parma numerous small and medium-sized industrial enterprises are located. In the north- west of the city, General Motors operated a plant for stamping parts with just under 1,000 employees. In addition, several radio and television transmission towers over the city are distributed. Largest retail location is the shopping center Parma Town Mall in the city center.
1992 Parma counted 21 public elementary and middle schools with 12,700 pupils, and twelve Catholic elementary and middle schools with over 8,000 students. There are two hospitals, a Catholic Children's Village, numerous parks and a golf course. As recreation areas serve two forest areas along the West Creek in the southeast and on Big Creek in the northwest, both of which belong to the Cleveland Metroparks.
History
Parma and Parma Heights go back to the same Parma Township, which had been marked out as part of the land surveys of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The first settlers arrived in 1816 and agricultural. After the western part of the township in 1911 was spun off as Parma Heights, was formed in 1924 from the rest of the townships today Parma. After the then proposed annexation to Cleveland had shattered, followed by 1931, the city survey.
Despite its proximity to Cleveland Parma remained rural in character until well into the 20th century. Only after the Second World War, strong population growth; the number of inhabitants increased from (1940 ) to 16,365 (1960 ) 82 845 1970 100 216 inhabitants and reached its peak. Since then, the population had fallen back by around 15 %.