Strongsville, Ohio

Cuyahoga County

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Strongsville is a city on the southwestern edge of the Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located 23.8 km south west of Cleveland, on the edge of the associated suburban belt and at the intersection of Interstates 71 and 80 it is 24.65 square miles ( 63.82 km ²) in size and had (2000) 43,858 inhabitants, of which 94.2 % White. The city is named after its founder, John Stoughton Strong.

Geography

The metropolitan area forms a square with a side length of five miles ( 8.045 km ). It is located on the southwestern edge of the Cuyahoga County and is bounded by the Sprague Road in the north, West 130th Street to the east, the Boston Road in the south and the Marks Road in the west. Neighboring municipalities are Berea and Middleburg Heights in the north, the east, and North Royalton Brunswick, Medina County in the south. To the west of Lorain County is located.

In contrast to all other townships in Cuyahoga County, there were no spin-offs in Strongsville Township. Therefore includes the current urban area - apart from a small fault of the boundary line to Berea in the north - still exactly those five on five miles square ( 64.72 km ² ), which were provided in the original land survey of the Connecticut Western Reserve for each township. This Strongsville is the second largest municipality by area in Cuyahoga County behind Cleveland.

Due to the urban area of ​​the eastern source of the river Rocky River runs. It flows in a pronounced valley of North Royalton coming in a northwesterly direction to Berea. In the southeast part of the city's numerous short inflows have also created many small, deep gorges. This valley system of the Rocky River and its tributaries is still heavily forested and designated as a nature reserve. The total of 1,291 hectare site by the name of Mill Stream Run belongs to the Cleveland Metroparks and is used as a recreational area.

Economy and infrastructure

As a relatively young suburb of Cleveland, the city has numerous and extensive residential areas. In addition, she still has approximately 1 sq. km shopping centers and four industrial parks with a total of around 11 sq km area. The local school district is one of eight elementary and two middle schools and a high school with 7,200 students. There is also a Catholic elementary and middle school as well as a privately funded vocational academy of ITT Technical Institute.

In industrial areas, small and medium enterprises of light industry and commercial enterprises are mainly resident, about Demag Plastics (injection molding machine ), Eberhard Manufacturing ( hardware), Pat Catan 's and Darice ( crafts and decoration) and the consulting firm Antares Management Solutions. With offices also are Momentive Performance Materials ( Ceramic Industry ), Avery Dennison ( office supplies, adhesive films ) and the paint manufacturer AkzoNobel with its U.S. headquarters.

The main traffic arteries are the two Interstates 71 and 80, the I-71 Columbus - Cleveland runs in north-south direction and the urban area has an exit. The crossing I-80 Chicago - New York runs in east-west direction and is a toll road. She can be reached only through the interchange with I- 71, where the toll booth is located. Most important main street in the city is the U.S. Route 42, the old road from Cleveland to Columbus. In addition, with the CSX Cleveland Subdivision Cleveland Lester ( Wheeling ) rail connection for freight.

History

Strongsville goes back to the same township, which had been marked out in the course of surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve. It was founded in 1821 and named after the leader of the first group of settlers, John Stoughton Strong. 1826 were counted 89 households. Most families were employed in agriculture.

In 1927, the Local Self-Government was enhanced by spin-off as a Village to accommodate the growing population. Overall, however, the area remained sparsely populated and dominated by agriculture until after the Second World War. It was not until the construction of Interstate 71 in 1955 left the suburbanization in the Cleveland area to proceed to Strongsville and use strong settlement activity. The population increased from (1950 ) 3504 on (2000) 43,858. This growth was also reinforced by the construction of Interstate 80 some years later and intensive efforts by the city to industrial operations. The city survey was conducted in 1960.

Mid-19th century was located in Strongsville an intermediate station of the Underground Railroad, an informal organization that helped slaves from the southern states to flee to Canada.

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