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History from Berea
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How Berea began
Berea was founded in 1836 by educator John Baldwin along with Methodist circuit preachers James Gilruth and Henry Olcott Sheldon, on Connecticut Western Reserve land where Revolutionary War veteran Abram Hickox and his nephew Jared Hickox had already settled by 1809. Residents reportedly settled the town's name by coin flip between 'Tabor' and 'Berea,' the biblical city from Acts winning out. Baldwin began quarrying sandstone from the Rocky River creek bed in 1838, launching an industry that made Berea the self-proclaimed 'Grindstone Capital of the World,' shipping grindstones by the Erie Canal and later rail until concrete construction ended the trade in the late 1930s; the old quarry pits are now Baldwin, Wallace and Coe lakes. Baldwin's Baldwin Institute (1845) and the Methodist German Wallace College (1866) merged in 1913 into Baldwin-Wallace College, now Baldwin Wallace University, still home to the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, the country's first collegiate Bach festival. Berea is today a Cleveland suburb of about 18,500.
Settled 1809 (Abram and Jared Hickox), platted 1836, incorporated 1836, by John Baldwin, James Gilruth and Henry Olcott Sheldon.
Where the name comes from
Community members considered naming the new town 'Tabor,' for the biblical Mount Tabor, until Henry Sheldon proposed Berea, for the city in the Book of Acts (17:10-11) where residents were praised for testing scripture for themselves; unable to agree, the founders reportedly settled the question with a coin flip, which came up Berea.
Before the town
No source we reviewed names a specific Native American village, trail or burial site within present Berea. The area lies within the Connecticut Western Reserve, secured for settlement by the 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh and the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Timeline
- — Abram Hickox, a Revolutionary War veteran, and his nephew Jared Hickox settle the area after finding surveyor Gideon Granger's plot markers.
- — John Baldwin, James Gilruth and Henry Olcott Sheldon found Berea, choosing the name by coin flip over 'Tabor'; the founders first attempt a utopian 'Community of United Christians.'
- — John Baldwin begins quarrying sandstone from the Rocky River creek bed, launching Berea's grindstone industry.
- — Berea grindstones begin shipping out via the Erie Canal.
- — John Baldwin founds Baldwin Institute, open 'regardless of sex, race, religious creed, or ability to pay'; it becomes Baldwin University in 1855.
- — German Wallace College is established in Berea.
- — The Cleveland Stone Company operates Quarry No. 6 in Berea, part of a sandstone industry that has made the town's dimension stone a regional building material.
- — Baldwin University and German Wallace College merge into Baldwin-Wallace College, now Baldwin Wallace University.
- — Berea's sandstone quarries close as concrete displaces cut stone in construction; the pits later become Baldwin, Wallace and Coe lakes.
- — Baldwin Wallace establishes the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, the first collegiate Bach festival in the United States.
- — Berea's population peaks at 22,396.
Stories
The Grindstone Capital of the World
John Baldwin, who had already founded Berea in 1836 and would go on to found its namesake college, started quarrying sandstone from the Rocky River creek bed in 1838, and the industry he began outgrew everything else the town would ever build. Berea sandstone turned out to be exceptionally well suited to grindstones -- abrasive enough to sharpen tools and mill grain, consistent enough to cut reliably -- and by the 1840s the town was shipping them out via the Erie Canal, then by rail once the railroad reached town, to customers across the country and beyond; Berea dimension stone also went into buildings across the region. The town took to calling itself the 'Grindstone Capital of the World,' a claim with real industrial weight behind it for the better part of a century, until the spread of concrete construction in the 1920s and 1930s finally undercut demand and closed the last quarries by the late 1930s. The empty pits filled with water and became Baldwin, Wallace and Coe lakes, still bearing the names of the industry and the institution that grew alongside it, now used for recreation rather than stone.
A coin flip and a utopian start
Berea's founders -- educator John Baldwin and Methodist circuit preachers James Gilruth and Henry Olcott Sheldon -- did not simply plat a town in 1836; they first tried to build a religious utopian community, the short-lived 'Community of United Christians,' and later attempted a Lyceum village organized around education, both of which dissolved even as the educational impulse behind them persisted. Even the town's name came down to chance: with 'Tabor' and 'Berea' both in contention, the founders are said to have flipped a coin to let the decision stand, and Berea won. That same educational ambition outlived the failed utopian schemes: Baldwin's 1845 Baldwin Institute, explicitly open to students 'regardless of sex, race, religious creed, or ability to pay,' and the 1866 German Wallace College, merged in 1913 into what is now Baldwin Wallace University -- an outcome closer to the founders' original vision than either the coin flip or the failed communal settlements might have suggested it would reach.
Photographs
Photo: Stone; an Illustrated Magazine (D.H. Ranck Publishing Co., Chicago), public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Chris Light (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Historic places
7 places in Berea on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Berea District 7 SchoolBuilding · Berea · listed 1975
- Address
- 323 E. Bagley Rd.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1975
- NRIS reference number
- 75001355
- Coordinates
- 41.37274, -81.84132
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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Berea Union DepotBuilding · Berea · listed 1980
- Address
- 30 Depot St.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1980
- NRIS reference number
- 80002976
- Coordinates
- 41.38130, -81.85434
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Buehl HouseBuilding · Berea · listed 1976
- Address
- 118 E. Bridge St.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1976
- NRIS reference number
- 76001388
- Coordinates
- 41.36611, -81.84960
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Droppers, Carl, HouseBuilding · Berea
- Address
- 345 Prospect Rd.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Latest NPS certification action
- 2023
- NRIS reference number
- 100008761
- Coordinates
- 41.35889, -81.85993
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Lyceum Village Square And German Wallace CollegeHistoric district · Berea · listed 1975
- Address
- Seminary St.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Historic district
- Listed on the National Register
- 1975
- NRIS reference number
- 75001356
- Coordinates
- 41.36834, -81.85166
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Wheeler, John, HouseBuilding · Berea · listed 1978
- Address
- 445 S. Rocky River Dr.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1978
- NRIS reference number
- 78002034
- Coordinates
- 41.35793, -81.84722
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Whitney, George W., HouseBuilding · Berea · listed 1974
- Address
- 330 S. Rocky River Dr.
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County · ZIP 44017
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1974
- NRIS reference number
- 74001429
- Coordinates
- 41.35798, -81.85212
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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.
Water
Surface water from the East Branch of the Rocky River, treated at the Berea WTP. EPA SDWIS lists this intake as the system's only active source (permanent, filtered). Two older intakes, Coe Lake and Baldwin Creek, were deactivated 2002-06-13. No purchased-water (seller) connection is listed. The water here
- Berea City96% of residentsEast Branch Rocky River
- Cleveland Public Water System4% of residentsLake Erie
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Berea's boundary: 3 nursing homes, 1 fire or EMS station, 1 college, 2 public schools, 1 private school, 1 library, 4 museums, 1 police station, 3 public charging sites, 6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 3 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Nursing homes (3)
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Aristocrat Berea Healthcare and Rehabilitation2 of 5 stars · Berea
- Address
- 255 Front Street, Berea, OH 44017
- Certified beds
- 165
- Residents on an average day
- 136
- Medicare overall rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 1 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- 1 payment denial (latest 2024-07-03)
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain
- CERTUS HEALTHCARE
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (440) 243-4000
- Medicare ID
- 365608
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Berea Center5 of 5 stars · Berea
- Address
- 49 Sheldon Rd, Berea, OH 44017
- Certified beds
- 50
- Residents on an average day
- 46
- Medicare overall rating
- 5 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 4 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- COMMUNICARE HEALTH
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (440) 234-0454
- Medicare ID
- 365893
- Map point
- the ZIP's center (the address did not geocode)
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Northwestern Healthcare Center3 of 5 stars · Berea
- Address
- 570 North Rocky River Drive, Berea, OH 44017
- Certified beds
- 100
- Residents on an average day
- 48
- Medicare overall rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- 3 fines totalling $152,195 (latest 2025-08-27)
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- COMMUNICARE HEALTH
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (440) 243-2122
- Medicare ID
- 365811
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.
Fire and EMS stations (1)
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Berea Fire DepartmentBerea
- Address
- 2 Prospect Street, Berea, OH 44017
- Coordinates
- 41.36712, -81.85731
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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.
Colleges (1)
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Baldwin Wallace UniversityPrivate nonprofit college · Berea
- What it is
- Private nonprofit college
- City
- Berea
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 3,646
- Tuition and fees, in state
- $37,938
- Graduation rate
- 69% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 685)
- IPEDS unit ID
- 201195
College Navigator (NCES) ↗ IPEDS data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 2023-24 enrollment and tuition, graduation rates for the 2017 (four-year) and 2020 (two-year) entering classes.
Public schools (2)
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Berea-Midpark High School4.5 of 5 stars · Berea
- Address
- 165 E Bagley Rd, Berea, OH 44017
- School district
- Berea City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 1,821
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 92
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 77.8%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 98.4%
- Ohio building IRN
- 024570
- NCES school ID
- 390436000175
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Grindstone Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Berea
- Address
- 191 Race St, Berea, OH 44017
- School district
- Berea City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 664
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 39.2
- Report card, 2025-26
- 5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 87.8%
- Ohio building IRN
- 034710
- NCES school ID
- 390436004414
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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.
Private schools (1)
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St Mary SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Berea
- Address
- 265 Baker St, Berea, OH 44017
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 163
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 15.1
- Students per teacher
- 10.7947
- Phone
- (216) 318-4311
- NCES private school ID
- 01058286
Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.
Public libraries (1)
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Berea Branch LibraryBranch · Berea
- Address
- 7 Berea Commons, Berea, OH 44017
- What it is
- Branch
- Library system
- Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Open
- 3,500 hours a year, 52 weeks
- Building
- 15,666 sq ft
- System's visits, FY2024
- 3,917,784
- System's loans, FY2024
- 11,584,178
- People the system serves
- 626,288
- Phone
- (440) 234-5475
IMLS Public Libraries Survey (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 (4)
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Berea Historical SocietyHistorical society · Berea
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Berea
- Coordinates
- 41.36919, -81.86187
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
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International Center For Environmental ArtsArt museum · Berea
- What it is
- Art museum
- City
- Berea
- Coordinates
- 41.38045, -81.86235
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
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Ohio Museum Of Transportation &IndustryMuseum · Berea
- What it is
- Museum
- City
- Berea
- Coordinates
- 41.37297, -81.87424
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
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Quincy Gillmore Civil War Round TableHistorical society · Berea
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Berea
- Coordinates
- 41.38333, -81.86952
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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)
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Berea Police DepartmentBerea
- Address
- 17 Berea Commons, Berea, OH 44017
- Coordinates
- 41.36483, -81.85350
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 (3)
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Baldwin Wallace University - 139 Tressel Street2 Level 2 · Berea
- Address
- 139 Tressel Street, Berea, OH 44017
- Ports
- 2 Level 2
- Plugs
- J1772
- Network
- Blink Network
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-998-2546
Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Baldwin Wallace University - 380 Front Street2 Level 2 · Berea
- Address
- 380 Front Street, Berea, OH 44017
- Ports
- 2 Level 2
- Plugs
- J1772
- Network
- Blink Network
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-998-2546
Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Riverside Gables Bed & Breakfast - Tesla Destination2 Level 2 · Berea
- Address
- 50 N Rocky River Dr, Berea, OH 44017
- Ports
- 2 Level 2
- Plugs
- J1772, Tesla (NACS)
- Network
- Tesla Destination
- Phone
- 877-798-3752
Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list (May 2026), public and open stations, the posts at one address counted as one site.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (6)
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Chemix CorpToxics Release Inventory · Berea
- Address
- 55 1St Avenue, Berea, OH 44017
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44017CHMXC55FIR
- EPA registry ID
- 110000385208
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Color Matrix CorpToxics Release Inventory · Berea
- Address
- 680 N Rocky River Dr, Berea, OH 44017
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory
- EPA program ID
- 4401WCLRMT68NRC
- EPA registry ID
- 110025332771
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Dearborn IncToxics Release Inventory · Berea
- Address
- 678 Front St, Berea, OH 44017
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44017DRBRN678FR
- EPA registry ID
- 110002110073
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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International Paint Llc (1318067810)Toxics Release Inventory · Berea
- Address
- 640 North Rocky River Dr., Berea, OH 44017
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44017LRNCK640NO
- EPA registry ID
- 110054242707
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Vesuvius Usa Corporation - Cd (1318126134)Toxics Release Inventory · Brook Park
- Address
- 20200 Sheldon Road, Brook Park, OH 44142
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
- EPA program ID
- 44142FSCNC20200
- EPA registry ID
- 110000388063
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Voss Industries LlcToxics Release Inventory · Berea
- Address
- 1000 W Bagley Rd, Berea, OH 44017
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44135TTHLL1000B
- EPA registry ID
- 110000766760
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Toxics Release Inventory reporters. Reporting a release is required of large users of listed chemicals; it is not by itself a violation.
Spills reported since 2021 (3)
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2025-12-12 · Berea
- Reported
- 2025-12-12
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 60 gallons
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2512EPA0001991
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2025-10-28 · Berea
- Reported
- 2025-10-28
- What spilled
- Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Berea, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2510EPA0001763
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All)2026-07-29 · Cleveland
- Reported
- 2026-07-29
- What spilled
- Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All)
- Largest amount reported
- 27 gallons
- Where
- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2607EPA0001388
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 Berea, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
Local government
Who holds office in Berea, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Financial Health Indicators (the Auditor of State's 17 measures; critical / cautionary / positive): 2020 2 / 1 / 14; 2021 1 / 3 / 13; 2022 1 / 2 / 14; 2023 1 / 2 / 14; 2024 0 / 1 / 16; 2025 1 / 3 / 13.
- Financial Audit, 2025, released 2026-08-20
- Financial Audit, 2024, released 2025-09-11
- Financial Audit, 2023, released 2024-08-06
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 Berea in the atlas yet.
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Berea, day by day, from 1871 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 2.35 in
- 2026-09-29 to 2026-10-28
- rain so far in 2026
- 33.5 in
- about normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 34.7 in
- a normal year brings 63.1 in
- a normal year
- 41.6 in
- average of 30 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 2.34 | — | 28 |
| September 2026 | 2.69 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 5.72 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 3.13 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 3.15 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 4.20 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 5.73 | 0.0 | 30 |
| March 2026 | 3.89 | 1.4 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 0.67 | 7.1 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 2.02 | 26.2 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.54 | 15.1 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 2.23 | 5.6 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2011 — 65.4 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1963 — 18.5 in |
| Snowiest year | 2005 — 104.9 in |
| Wettest day on record | 27 August 1903 — 4.94 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 25 November 1950 — 13.13 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 5 February 2009 — 20.12 in |
Mostly estimated. Only 4% of these days come from a gauge standing inside Berea - the rest are worked out from the nearest gauges around it, so read them as close estimates rather than readings.
56,914 days of records, 1871-01-01 to 2026-10-28. 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 Berea: 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
- 32
- those placed on the map inside Berea
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Hazardous waste | 15 |
| Wastewater and stormwater discharge | 7 |
| Air pollution | 5 |
| Voluntary cleanup | 2 |
| Public drinking water | 1 |
| State water loans | 1 |
| Wetland and stream fill | 1 |
| Date | Facility or site | What |
|---|---|---|
| STEM EXPLORATION CENTER | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| VESUVIUS USA CORPORATION - CD | Air pollution permit | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water warning letter | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water plan | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water plan | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water report | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water plan | |
| HUNT IMAGING LLC | Air pollution report | |
| CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE CAMPUS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| FRONT STREET EAST | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| FRONT STREET TOWNS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water plan | |
| VOSS INDUSTRIES LLC | Hazardous waste report | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water letter | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water violation resolved | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water plan | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water inspection | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water inspection | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water inspection | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water notice of violation | |
| BEREA CITY PWS | Public drinking water inspection | |
| HUNT IMAGING LLC | Hazardous waste compliance letter | |
| VESUVIUS USA CORPORATION - CD | Air pollution permit | |
| VOSS INDUSTRIES LLC | Hazardous waste compliance letter | |
| VESUVIUS USA CORPORATION - CD | Air pollution 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.
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What county is Berea, Ohio in?
Berea is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 18,545 residents.
When was Berea, Ohio founded?
Berea was settled 1809 (Abram and Jared Hickox); laid out 1836; incorporated 1836. Founders on record: John Baldwin, James Gilruth and Henry Olcott Sheldon. Source
How did Berea, Ohio get its name?
Community members considered naming the new town 'Tabor,' for the biblical Mount Tabor, until Henry Sheldon proposed Berea, for the city in the Book of Acts (17:10-11) where residents were praised for testing scripture for themselves; unable to agree, the founders reportedly settled the question with a coin flip, which came up Berea. Source
What ZIP code is Berea, Ohio?
Most of Berea is in ZIP code 44017.
Where does Berea, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Berea (Berea City): Surface water from the East Branch of the Rocky River, treated at the Berea WTP. EPA SDWIS lists this intake as the system's only active source (permanent, filtered). Two older intakes, Coe Lake and Baldwin Creek, were deactivated 2002-06-13. No purchased-water (seller) connection is listed.
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