Euclid, Ohio
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Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cuyahoga County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. It is the most populous county in Ohio; as of the 2010 census, the population was 1,280,122. Its county seat is Cleveland. Cuyahoga County is part of Greater Cleveland, a metropolitan area, and Northeast Ohio, a...

, United States
United States
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. It is part of the Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland is a nickname for the metropolitan area surrounding Cleveland, Ohio and is part of what used to be the Connecticut Western Reserve.Northeast Ohio refers to a similar but substantially larger area as described below...

 Metropolitan Area, and borders Cleveland. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 48,920. In 2009, Euclid celebrated its bicentennial.

Geography

Euclid is located at 41°35′44"N 81°31′9"W (41.595563, -81.519176).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...

, Euclid has a total area of 11.6 square miles (30 km²), of which 10.7 square miles (27.7 km²) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), or 7.43%, is water. It is directly on Lake Erie
Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

, so it contains an area of beach front along its north edge.

Bordering Euclid are Cleveland on the west, South Euclid
South Euclid, Ohio
South Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland.-Geography:Acting almost as a central point for the east side of Cleveland, South Euclid is bordered by Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Beachwood, Lyndhurst, Richmond Heights,...

 and Richmond Heights
Richmond Heights, Ohio
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 on the south, Willowick
Willowick, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,361 people, 6,101 households, and 4,112 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,709.2 people per square mile . There were 6,272 housing units at an average density of 2,493.4 per square mile...

, Wickliffe
Wickliffe, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there are 13,484 people, 5,604 households, 3,754 families residing in the city. The population density is 2,898.2 people per square mile . There are 5,787 housing units at an average density of 1,243.8 per square mile...

, and Willoughby Hills
Willoughby Hills, Ohio
Willoughby Hills is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 8,595 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Willoughby Hills is located at ....

 on the east, and Lake Erie
Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

 on the north.

It is part of the Lake Erie Snowbelt region, prone to heavy wind-whipped snow squalls blowing off Lake Erie, particularly before the lake freezes over in winter.

City facts

Charter: Mayor and Council - 8 council people / 1 Council President

Settled: 1796
Township: 1809
Village: 1903
City: 1930

Assessed Valuation: $825,325,160

Industry: 150 companies

Housing: 26,276 units

Newspapers: 2 daily

Infrastructure

143.065 mi of Streets;

3.06 mi of Interstate 90
Interstate 90
Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate, and parallels US 20 for the most part. Its western terminus is in Seattle, at Edgar Martinez Drive S. near Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field, and its eastern terminus is in...



1.65 mi south spur

262.38 mi sewer

139.65 mi water main

2 railroads; CSX
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation operates a Class I railroad in the United States known as the CSX Railroad. It is the main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns approximately 21,000 route miles...

 and Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada...



1 bus line; Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, providing over 44 million trips to residents and visitors of the Cleveland area in 2010...


Buildings

Churches: 22

Banks: 9

Hospital: 1; 371 beds

Libraries: 1; ~299,340 total volumes

Parks: Memorial Park; Briardale Golf Course; Sims Park; Euclid Metropark; Wiiard Park; Hillandale Park

Pools: 1 outdoor deep pool; 4 shallow; 1 children's

Police: 1 station; 2 mini stations; 96 officers; 62 vehicles; 11 school guards; 37 auxiliary

Senior Center: 1

Fire Dept.: 3 stations; 76 firefighters; 19 pieces of equipment

Motels: 1

Schools: 10 public schools (1 high school, 2 junior high schools, 6 elementary schools, 1 Special Needs Education Center); 3 parochial schools, 1 charter school

Demographics

As of the census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

of 2000, there were 52,717 people, 24,353 households,the
13,491 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 was 4,923.2 people per square mile (1,900.5/km²). There were 26,123 housing units at an average density of 2,439.6 per square mile (941.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 66.36% White, 30.57% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.94% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races
Race (United States Census)
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

, and 1.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.15% of the population.

There were 24,353 households out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.3% were married couples
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...

 living together, 15.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.6% were non-families. 39.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.89.

In the city, the population was spread out with 22.3% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 84.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $35,151, and the median income for a family was $45,278. Males had a median income of $35,914 versus $28,528 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

 for the city was $19,664. About 7.1% of families and 9.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.9% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.

In 2010 Euclid had a population of 48,920. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 43.1% non-Hispanic white, 52.6% black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.1% non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 2.3% reporting two or more races and 1.6% Hispanic or Latino.

Notable attractions/history

Euclid is the site of the 1926 case Euclid v. Ambler
Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co.
Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., , more commonly Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court case argued in 1926...

. The case opened the doors for municipalities across the United States to establish zoning
Zoning
Zoning is a device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another...

 ordinances.
  • Euclid is home to the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame.
  • Euclid is the home of Euclid High School
    Euclid High School
    The Euclid High School is a public high school located in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio in the northeast corner of Cuyahoga County. Originally named Euclid Senior High School, it was constructed in 1949 to replace the Euclid Central High School and Shore High School facilities...

    , one of 5 schools in Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

     to split its school up via the Knowledgeworks Foundation grant
    Grant (money)
    Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal...

    . However, the program ended in 2009 due to low test score improvement and rising costs.
  • Euclid is home to the Euclid Pony Baseball League, founded in 1951. http://www.euclidpony.org
  • Euclid is the city where Charles F. Brush
    Charles F. Brush
    Charles Francis Brush was a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.-Biography:Born in Euclid Township, Ohio, Brush was raised on a farm about 10 miles from downtown Cleveland...

     created the Arc Lamp in 1876
  • Euclid is the home to both the main plant and corporate headquarters of the Lincoln Electric Company, Located on St. Clair Avenue.
  • In June 2011, Lincoln Electric installed a 2.5 Megawatt wind turbine. At 443 feet, it is the largest in Ohio and one of the largest in North America.
  • Euclid is home to the annual CABA High School World Series baseball tournament. Past notable tournament players include Alex Rodriguez
    Alex Rodriguez
    Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez is an American professional baseball third baseman with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Known popularly by his nickname A-Rod, he previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.Rodriguez is considered one of the best...

     and Jeffrey Hammonds
    Jeffrey Hammonds
    Jeffrey Bryan Hammonds is a former Major League Baseball player. He attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and Stanford University in California before playing pro ball...

    .
  • Euclid is home of the Softball Hall of Fame. http://www.softballmuseum.org
  • Euclid is home to sports personality and former National Football League player Mike Adamle
    Mike Adamle
    Michael David "Mike" Adamle is a sports personality and former National Football League player. He is best known as the co-host of American Gladiators series for seven years....

    . He is best known as the co-host of the cult-favorite American Gladiators series for seven years.
  • Euclid Beach Park
    Euclid Beach Park
    Euclid Beach Park was a popular amusement park located on the shores of Lake Erie in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio....

     was originally part of Euclid Township, until the boundaries were redrawn in the early 1900s.
  • Walk Two Moons
    Walk Two Moons
    Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal. It was originally intended as a follow-up to Creech's previous novel Absolutely Normal Chaos, however, the idea was changed after Creech began writing.-Plot summary:The novel is narrated by a 13...

    by Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...

     was partly set in Euclid .
  • Euclid was home to two government owned housing projects, East 200th Street and Briardale. Both were torn down due to the federal government's failure to maintain the properties. Briardale now serves as the Municipal Golf Course, called Briardale Greens.
  • Euclid was the home town of new wave science fiction
    New Wave (science fiction)
    New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a "literary" or artistic sensibility, and a focus on "soft" as opposed to hard science. The term "New Wave" is borrowed from the French...

     author Roger Zelazny
    Roger Zelazny
    Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...

    .
  • The cordless telephone
    Cordless telephone
    A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line, usually within a limited range of its base station...

     was invented in Euclid by George Sweigert
    George Sweigert
    George H. Sweigert is widely credited as the first inventor to hold a patent for the invention of the cordless telephone. Google Patents link...

     in 1969.
  • Euclid houses the Euclid Public Library
    Euclid Public Library
    The Euclid Public Library is the public library system serving Euclid, Ohio. It was originally created in 1935 following the merger of two local branch libraries. In 1995 the library was expanded to a complex...

    , ranked 3rd in the nation in the 50,000 population category in 2007, and has been recognized in the Top Ten of the HAPLER Public library Ratings.
  • The 1987 Michael J. Fox
    Michael J. Fox
    Michael J. Fox, OC is a Canadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...

     movie Light of Day
    Light of Day
    The soundtrack to the film was released in 1987. As a single, "Light of Day" reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received additional album-oriented rock airplay due to the connection of Joan Jett and Bruce Springsteen....

    was partially filmed here. The opening scene pans the area from a helicopter. The "tongue-stuck-to-the-flagpole" scene in the movie "A Christmas Story" was filmed at Shore School, now a museum for the Euclid Public Schools and a Community Center.
  • Euclid was the home to northern Ohio's first commercial UHF television station in 1968, WKBF Channel 61, then a Kaiser owned station located on St.Clair Avenue.
  • Euclid was the original location to the corporate headquarters of Reliance Electric, Thompson Products (TRW), and Addressograph-Mulitgraph.
  • In June 2011, Lincoln Electric installed a 2.5 Megawatt wind turbine. At 443 feet, it is the largest in Ohio and one of the largest in North America.

Transportation

  • Euclid is situated near the junction of Interstate 90
    Interstate 90
    Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate, and parallels US 20 for the most part. Its western terminus is in Seattle, at Edgar Martinez Drive S. near Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field, and its eastern terminus is in...

    , Interstate 271
    Interstate 271
    Interstate 271 is an auxiliary interstate highway in the suburbs of Cleveland and Akron in the U.S. state of Ohio. The highway is officially designated the "Cleveland Outerbelt East", but rarely referred to by that name.-Route description:...

     and Ohio Route 2
    Ohio State Highway 2
    State Route 2 is an east–west highway crossing most of northern Ohio. Its western terminus is at the Indiana state line near Hicksville where the route becomes Indiana State Road 37 which continues to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The eastern terminus of the route is in Painesville Township at U.S...

    , giving easy access by car to downtown Cleveland
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

    , Lake County
    Lake County, Ohio
    Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of 2010, the population was 230,041. The county seat is Painesville, and the county name comes from its location on the southern shore of Lake Erie....

    , and most of the East suburbs.
  • Major east-west thoroughfares include Lake Shore Blvd. (SR 283
    Ohio State Highway 283
    State Route 283 is an east–west state highway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Its western terminus at U.S. Route 6 2½ miles northeast of Downtown Cleveland, and its eastern terminus at U.S. Route 20 in Painesville. Most of the route is known as Lake Shore Boulevard...

    ), Lakeland Freeway (I-90/SR2), St. Clair Avenue, Euclid Avenue (US 20), and Chardon Road (US 6
    U.S. Route 6
    U.S. Route 6 , also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, a name that honors an American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system, running east-northeast from Bishop, California to Provincetown, Massachusetts. Until 1964, it continued south from Bishop to...

    ). North-south routes include East 185th Street (aka "Old World Plaza"), East 200, East 222, Babbitt Road, East 260th/Richmond Road (SR 175
    Ohio State Route 175
    State Route 175 is a long north–south state highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The southern terminus of SR 175 is at a signalized intersection with SR 43 in Solon...

    ), and Lloyd Road.
  • GCRTA
    Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
    The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, providing over 44 million trips to residents and visitors of the Cleveland area in 2010...

     bus routes serving Euclid include the #39 (Lakeshore), #239 (Euclid Park & Ride), #1 (St. Clair), #28 (Euclid Avenue), #37 (E. 185 / Taylor), #34 (E. 200 / Green), and #94 (E. 260/Richmond). Several of these routes were originally operated by the now-defunct Euclid Transit System, whose operations merged with the GCRTA
    Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
    The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, providing over 44 million trips to residents and visitors of the Cleveland area in 2010...

     during the late 1970s.

Ethnic groups

  • Euclid is home to a variety of ethnic groups, most notably Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    n. There are a number of streets in Euclid that bear witness to the Slovenian influence on Euclid, including Recher, Mavec, Drenik, Grdina, Trebec, Mozina, Kapel, and Ljubljana.
  • Euclid also contains sizeable African-American and Croatian
    Croats
    Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

     communities.
  • Euclid city schools are about 70.6% African-American. (2007)
  • Euclid contains citizens of Irish descent and houses an Irish-American Club.

Surrounding communities

See also

  • Euclid City School District
    Euclid City School District
    The Euclid City School District is a public school district located in Euclid, Ohio . The school district consists of 6,303 students in 10 schools in grades K-12...

  • Euclid Square Mall
    Euclid Square Mall
    Euclid Square Mall is a shopping mall in Euclid, Ohio, United States. It was opened in 1977 as a regional mall with two anchor stores: local chains Higbee's and May Co. Over time, it has lost many of its inline tenants to other nearby malls...

  • Euclid Trucks
    Euclid Trucks
    The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, namely dump trucks and wheel tractor-scrapers, that operated from the United States of America from the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was purchased and converted into a section of General Motors and later on by...

  • Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.

External links

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