Bay Village

City · Cuyahoga County · 16,058 residents · 1.5% municipal income tax

Cuyahoga County

Local events in Bay Village

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Deep dives about Bay Village

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How Bay Village began

Wikipedia's account of Bay Village records that Erie people lived in the area before European-American arrival around 1600, and that the wider territory including present Bay Village, Avon, Avon Lake and Westlake was known in a Native language as Xeuma, 'those who came before us.' Joseph Cahoon settled in the area in 1810, within what was then Dover Township; landowners in northern Dover separated to form Bay Township in 1901 and Bay Village incorporated in 1903, becoming a city in 1950. The Cahoon family's last descendant, Ida Marie Cahoon, left her home and 115 acres to the city on her 1917 death, creating Cahoon Memorial Park, while Standard Oil partner John Huntington's lakefront estate became Cleveland Metroparks' Huntington Reservation. Bay Village is best known nationally as the site of the July 4, 1954 murder of Marilyn Sheppard, whose husband Sam Sheppard's contested conviction and 1966 Supreme Court reversal in Sheppard v. Maxwell reshaped American law on pretrial publicity.

Settled 1810 (Joseph Cahoon), incorporated 1901 (Bay Township, split from Dover Township); 1903 (Bay Village); 1950 (city), by Joseph Cahoon.

Where the name comes from

Bay Village takes its name from its position on a bay of Lake Erie; it was part of Dover Township until landowners in northern Dover forced a separating election in 1901, forming Bay Township, incorporated as Bay Village in 1903.

Before the town

Wikipedia's article on Bay Village states that Erie people lived in the area before European-American settlement around 1600, and that the broader territory covering present Bay Village, Avon Lake, Avon and Westlake was known to Native people as Xeuma, translated as 'those who came before us.' It also states that present-day Lake Road, a main Bay Village thoroughfare, follows 'the most important Indian trail in Ohio,' though that specific claim carries a Wikipedia citation-needed flag and could not be independently corroborated in the sources we reviewed. The county-level record treats the Erie's presence specifically within Ohio, rather than further east along Lake Erie's shore, as historically uncertain in the scholarly literature, so the Bay Village claim is given here as reported by that source, not as independently confirmed. No specific named Native village or site within present Bay Village was found.

Nations recorded here: Erie.

Timeline

  1. — Erie people live in the area later called Bay Village, per Wikipedia's account of the city; the wider territory is known in a Native language as Xeuma.
  2. — Joseph Cahoon settles in the area, then part of Dover Township.
  3. — Landowners in northern Dover Township force a separating election, forming Bay Township.
  4. — Bay Village incorporates with an elected mayor and council.
  5. — Ida Marie Cahoon, the last Cahoon family descendant in the area, dies and bequeaths her home and 115 acres to the city, creating Cahoon Memorial Park.
  6. — Bay Village becomes a city with a population of 6,917.
  7. — Marilyn Sheppard is bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village home; her husband, osteopath Sam Sheppard, is later charged with her murder.
  8. — A jury convicts Sam Sheppard of second-degree murder after a nine-week trial marked by intense media coverage; he is sentenced to life in prison.
  9. — The U.S. Supreme Court, in Sheppard v. Maxwell, overturns Sheppard's conviction 8-1, citing the trial's 'carnival atmosphere' and the judge's failure to control prejudicial publicity.
  10. — A retrial jury acquits Sam Sheppard after 12 hours of deliberation.
  11. — EF-1 tornadoes strike Bay Village, causing widespread power outages.

Stories

A trial the Supreme Court called a carnival

In the early hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of the Bay Village home she shared with her husband, osteopath Sam Sheppard, who said an intruder had knocked him unconscious twice and that he had chased the assailant to the lakeshore. The Cleveland press turned the case into a sensation before trial even began -- the Cleveland Press ran an editorial headlined 'Why Isn't Sam Sheppard in Jail?' that July -- and on December 21, 1954, after a nine-week trial and four days of deliberation, a jury convicted Sheppard of second-degree murder. He spent a decade in prison before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the June 6, 1966 decision Sheppard v. Maxwell, voted 8-1 to overturn the conviction, ruling that the trial judge had let a 'carnival atmosphere' of press coverage and an unsequestered jury deny Sheppard a fair trial -- a decision that reshaped how American courts manage pretrial publicity ever since. At his retrial that November, with the jury sequestered this time, Sheppard was acquitted after just 12 hours of deliberation. Popular culture later linked the case to The Fugitive, though the show's creator, Roy Huggins, always denied any connection.

An estate becomes a pumping station, a park and a preserve

Two of Bay Village's defining public spaces trace back to single wealthy 19th-century families who chose, in the end, to give their land away rather than let it be subdivided. Ida Marie Cahoon, the last local descendant of settler Joseph Cahoon, died in 1917 and left her family home and 115 surrounding acres to the city, creating Cahoon Memorial Park. Around the same period, Standard Oil partner John Huntington's Lake Erie summer estate passed instead to the growing Cleveland Metroparks system, becoming Huntington Reservation -- and the water-pumping tower Huntington's estate once needed to serve the property still stands within the reservation today, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a small working relic of a private lakefront estate now open to the public.

Photographs

The John Huntington Pumping Tower, 28600 Lake Road, Bay Village, in the Huntington Reservation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The John Huntington Pumping Tower, 28600 Lake Road, Bay Village, in the Huntington Reservation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (2014-12-01)
Photo: Nyttend (Wikimedia Commons), public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org

Historic places

4 places in Bay Village on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. Aldrich, Aaron, HouseBuilding · Bay Village · listed 1978
    Address
    30663 Lake Rd.
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44140
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1978
    NRIS reference number
    78002033
    Coordinates
    41.49711, -81.95866
  2. Bay View HospitalBuilding · Bay Village · listed 1974
    Address
    23200 Lake Rd.
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44140
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1974
    NRIS reference number
    74001428
    Coordinates
    41.48237, -81.87639
  3. Huntington, John, Pumping TowerStructure · Bay Village · listed 1979
    Address
    28600 Lake Rd.
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44140
    What it is
    Structure
    Listed on the National Register
    1979
    NRIS reference number
    79001798
    Coordinates
    41.49056, -81.93365
  4. Rose Hill and Community HouseBuilding · Bay Village · listed 1994
    Address
    Jct. of Cahoon and Lake Rds.
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44140
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1994
    NRIS reference number
    94000413
    Coordinates
    41.48792, -81.92642

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file. The listing year is shown where NPS's certification date agrees with the listing's reference number. Listing recognizes significance; it does not restrict a private owner.

Every historic place in Cuyahoga County on the full map

Water

Lake Erie, through an 8-foot pipe running 2.5 miles offshore from the Westlake shoreline The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Bay Village's boundary: 1 nursing home, 1 fire or EMS station, 5 public schools, 1 library, 3 museums, 1 police station, 1 public charging site and 9 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Nursing homes (1)

  1. O'Neill Healthcare Bay Village2 of 5 stars · Bay Village
    Address
    605 Bradley Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    Certified beds
    138
    Residents on an average day
    112
    Medicare overall rating
    2 of 5 stars
    Health inspections
    2 of 5 stars
    Staffing
    2 of 5 stars
    Quality measures
    4 of 5 stars
    Penalties since 2023
    none
    Ownership
    For profit - Limited Liability company
    Chain
    O'NEILL HEALTHCARE
    Takes
    Medicare and Medicaid
    Phone
    (440) 871-3474
    Medicare ID
    365264

Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.

Fire and EMS stations (1)

  1. Bay Village Fire DepartmentBay Village
    Address
    28100 Wolf Road, Bay Village, OH 44140
    Coordinates
    41.48605, -81.93086

Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.

Public schools (5)

  1. Bay High School5 of 5 stars · Bay Village
    Address
    29230 Wolf Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    School district
    Bay Village City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    759
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    54
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    98.8%
    Four-year graduation rate
    96.9%
    Ohio building IRN
    001792
    NCES school ID
    390435400115
  2. Bay Middle School4.5 of 5 stars · Bay Village
    Address
    27725 Wolf Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    School district
    Bay Village City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    701
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    50.37
    Report card, 2025-26
    4.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    95.7%
    Ohio building IRN
    001800
    NCES school ID
    390435400116
  3. Glenview Center for Childcare and LearningBay Village
    Address
    28727 Wolf Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    55
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    4
    NCES school ID
    390435405919
  4. Normandy Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Bay Village
    Address
    26920 Normandy Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    School district
    Bay Village City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    498
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    30
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Ohio building IRN
    027359
    NCES school ID
    390435400119
  5. Westerly Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Bay Village
    Address
    30301 Wolf Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140
    School district
    Bay Village City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    362
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    21
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    98.4%
    Ohio building IRN
    040626
    NCES school ID
    390435400120

Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2024-25 and Common Core of Data 2023-24 (type, students, teachers); Ohio School Report Cards 2025-26 (Department of Education and Workforce), matched by name within the district.

Public libraries (1)

  1. Bay Village Branch LibraryBranch · Bay Village
    Address
    27400 Wolf Road, Bay Village, OH 44140
    What it is
    Branch
    Library system
    Cuyahoga County Public Library
    Open
    3,451 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    17,170 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    3,917,784
    System's loans, FY2024
    11,584,178
    People the system serves
    626,288
    Phone
    (440) 871-6392

Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 (outlets and their systems). Any Ohio resident can get a free card at any Ohio public library.

Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (3)

  1. Bay Village Historical SocietyHistorical society · Cleveland
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Cleveland
    Coordinates
    41.48889, -81.92770

    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

  2. Lake Erie Nature And Science CenterScience or technology museum · Cleveland
    What it is
    Science or technology museum
    City
    Cleveland
    Coordinates
    41.48523, -81.93794

    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

  3. Rose Hill MuseumMuseum · Bay Village
    What it is
    Museum
    City
    Bay Village
    Coordinates
    41.48889, -81.92770

    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.

Police stations (1)

  1. Bay Village Police DepartmentBay Village
    Address
    28000 Wolf Road, Bay Village, OH 44140
    Coordinates
    41.48589, -81.93001

Source: USGS National Map structures, police stations, corrected and completed by hand (September 2026). The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction, not by distance.

Public EV charging (1)

  1. CCPLBAY STATION14 Level 2 · Bay Village
    Address
    400 Bryson Ln, Bay Village, OH 44140
    Ports
    4 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list (May 2026), public and open stations, the posts at one address counted as one site.

Spills reported since 2021 (9)

  1. Fish Kill2025-11-20 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2025-11-20
    What spilled
    Fish Kill
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2511EPA0001898
  2. Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2025-08-19 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2025-08-19
    What spilled
    Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
    Largest amount reported
    20 gallons
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2508EPA0001407
  3. Material Undetermined / Other Reached water2024-10-23 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2024-10-23
    What spilled
    Material Undetermined / Other
    Reached a waterway
    18 - Porter Creek
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2410EPA0001784
  4. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2024-07-22 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2024-07-22
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    20 gallons
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2407EPA0001250
  5. Concrete2024-05-02 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2024-05-02
    What spilled
    Concrete
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2405EPA0000730
  6. Material Unknown Reached water2023-09-19 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2023-09-19
    What spilled
    Material Unknown
    Reached a waterway
    18 - Porter Creek
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2309EPA0001630
  7. Material Unknown Reached water2022-06-23 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2022-06-23
    What spilled
    Material Unknown
    Reached a waterway
    18 - Porter Creek
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2206EPA0000954
  8. Chemical(S) Unk Reached water2021-10-22 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2021-10-22
    What spilled
    Chemical(S) Unk
    Reached a waterway
    18 - Lake Erie
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2110EPA0001650
  9. Material Unknown Reached water2021-08-04 · Bay Village
    Reported
    2021-08-04
    What spilled
    Material Unknown
    Reached a waterway
    18 - Sperry Creek
    Where
    Bay Village, Cuyahoga County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2108EPA0001191

Source: Ohio EPA emergency response spill reports, 2021 to September 2026, one point per case where Ohio EPA placed it. A report is what the caller or responder recorded; amounts are often blank or estimated.

Its ZIP codes

Each ZIP code that touches Bay Village, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

Local government

Who holds office in Bay Village, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Auditor of State record

The county

Cuyahoga County: 52 ZIP codes, 59 cities, villages and townships, 1,270,867 people.

Nearby places

No nearby place shares a ZIP code with Bay Village in the atlas yet.

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on Bay Village, day by day, from 1871 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days
2.53 in
2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
rain so far in 2026
34.1 in
about normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
34.7 in
a normal year brings 55.5 in
a normal year
41.0 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 2.53 — 29
September 2026 1.94 — 30
August 2026 6.29 — 31
July 2026 2.97 — 31
June 2026 4.13 — 30
May 2026 3.87 — 31
April 2026 6.32 — 30
March 2026 3.48 1.3 31
February 2026 0.55 6.5 28
January 2026 2.03 26.9 31
December 2025 2.54 14.1 31
November 2025 2.15 4.7 30
On the record, 1871–2026
Wettest year2011 — 64.5 in
Driest year1963 — 18.0 in
Snowiest year2005 — 93.0 in
Wettest day on record7 September 1996 — 4.85 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day25 November 1950 — 13.94 in
Deepest snow on the ground11 November 1913 — 19.02 in

Mostly estimated. Only 2% of these days come from a gauge standing inside Bay Village - the rest are worked out from the nearest gauges around it, so read them as close estimates rather than readings.

56,915 days of records, 1871-01-01 to 2026-10-29. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.

Environmental permits and filings

What Ohio EPA has on file for Bay Village: permits, inspections, violations, cleanups and the state loans behind sewer and water work. Every line links to the agency's own document.

facilities and sites on file
23
those placed on the map inside Bay Village
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Wetland and stream fill10
Site assessment3
State sewer loans3
Contaminated-site cleanup2
Hazardous waste2
Sewer and water-line construction2
Wastewater and stormwater discharge1
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
MADDUX PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
26000 LAKE ROAD LLC Wetland and stream fill permit
PCN COORDINATION MADDUX BANK STABILIZATION Wetland and stream fill permit
PCN COORDINATION WEILAND BANK STABILIZATION Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
CAHOON PARK - BAY POINT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
CAHOON PARK - BAY POINT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
CAHOON PARK - BAY POINT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
SRNECK PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BAY POINT-CAHOON PARK Wetland and stream fill permit
CAHOON PARK - BAY POINT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
CAHOON PARK - BAY POINT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
SRNECK PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BENSMAN PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BENSMAN PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BENSMAN PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BENSMAN PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit
BENSMAN PROJECT Wetland and stream fill permit

Source: Ohio EPA eDocument portal (edocpub.epa.ohio.gov), indexed 2026-10-14. Facilities are placed on the map from Ohio EPA's own map layers, EPA's Facility Registry, coordinates written in the filings, or a geocoded street address. A permit filed under a private person's name (most are household septic systems) is counted but never named, placed or linked; licenses for individual workers and open-burning notices are left out entirely.

Quick answers

What county is Bay Village, Ohio in?

Bay Village is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 16,058 residents.

When was Bay Village, Ohio founded?

Bay Village was settled 1810 (Joseph Cahoon); incorporated 1901 (Bay Township, split from Dover Township); 1903 (Bay Village); 1950 (city). Founders on record: Joseph Cahoon. Source

How did Bay Village, Ohio get its name?

Bay Village takes its name from its position on a bay of Lake Erie; it was part of Dover Township until landowners in northern Dover forced a separating election in 1901, forming Bay Township, incorporated as Bay Village in 1903. Source

What ZIP code is Bay Village, Ohio?

Most of Bay Village is in ZIP code 44140.

Where does Bay Village, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Bay Village (Cleveland Public Water System): Lake Erie, through an 8-foot pipe running 2.5 miles offshore from the Westlake shoreline.

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