Highland Hills
Village · Cuyahoga County · 662 residents · 2.5% municipal income tax
Local events in Highland Hills
16 events in the next 90 days from 1 public calendar. All local events in Highland Hills
Checked October 20; the events page is refreshed daily.
Notable people from Highland Hills
Ohioans tied to this place, each with a sourced profile. All notable Ohioans
How Highland Hills began
Highland Hills was part of Warrensville Township, itself named for settler Daniel Warren, who arrived in 1810, and stayed a rural farming area through the 19th century. Cuyahoga County concentrated its institutional facilities here in the early 1900s: the County Infirmary (1904, now part of Highland View Hospital), a tuberculosis sanatorium at Cooley Farms (1906, later Sunny Acres Sanatorium), and the Cleveland Workhouse and House of Correction (1912). The village itself was created out of Warrensville Township only in 1990, prompted by a plan from Figgie International to move its headquarters to northeastern Ohio; Robert Nash served as its first mayor from 1990 until his death in 2018.
Settled 1810 (Daniel Warren, namesake settler of Warrensville Township), incorporated 1990, from Warrensville Township, prompted by Figgie International's plan to relocate its headquarters to northeastern Ohio.
Where the name comes from
No source we reviewed explains why the new 1990 village took the name Highland Hills specifically, though it split from Warrensville Township, itself named for settler Daniel Warren.
Before the town
No source we reviewed identifies a specific, named Native American village, mound, or treaty site within present Highland Hills; the land was part of Warrensville Township, on ground ceded to the United States by the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Nations recorded here: Lenape (Delaware), Wyandot.
Timeline
- — Daniel Warren settles the area, giving his name to Warrensville Township.
- — The area remains a rural agricultural community.
- — Cuyahoga County builds the County Infirmary in the township, later part of Highland View Hospital.
- — The county opens a tuberculosis sanatorium at Cooley Farms, later renamed Sunny Acres Sanatorium.
- — A postcard documents the courtyard of the Warrensville Infirmary.
- — The Cleveland Workhouse and House of Correction opens in the township.
- — Highland Hills is created out of Warrensville Township, prompted by Figgie International's plan to relocate its headquarters to northeastern Ohio; Robert Nash becomes first mayor.
- — Population is 1,618.
- — Robert Nash, the village's only mayor since its 1990 founding, dies in office and is succeeded by Michael L. Booker.
Stories
Where the county put its institutions, then a village grew
For most of its history this corner of Warrensville Township was not a town at all but a place the county sent its institutions: the County Infirmary in 1904, a tuberculosis sanatorium at Cooley Farms in 1906, and the Cleveland Workhouse and House of Correction in 1912, a cluster of public facilities dealing with poverty, contagious disease, and incarceration all sited on the same rural farmland outside the city. A 1911 postcard of the Warrensville Infirmary's courtyard is one of the few surviving images of that institutional landscape. It was not until 1990 -- prompted, unusually, by a private corporation's relocation plans rather than any local political movement -- that Figgie International's proposal to move its headquarters to northeastern Ohio gave the area a reason to incorporate on its own, creating Highland Hills as a village distinct from the rest of Warrensville Township after a full century of serving mainly as the county's institutional back lot.
Photographs
Photo: Columbus Metropolitan Library, via Digital Public Library of America, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · case.edu · commons.wikimedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
Water
The Five Mile Crib, a small structure about 5 miles out in Lake Erie north of Cleveland's Edgewater Park The water here
- Cleveland Public Water System100% of residentsLake Erie
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Highland Hills's boundary: 1 hospital, 1 fire or EMS station, 2 public schools, 1 museum, 1 police station, 1 public charging site and 2 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Hospitals (1)
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Highland Springs HospitalPsychiatric hospital · Highland Hills
- What it is
- Psychiatric hospital
- Address
- 4199 Mill Pond Drive, Highland Hills, OH 44122
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Beds
- 72
- Ownership
- Proprietary
- Medicare overall rating
- not rated
- Emergency department (Medicare)
- No
- Medicare reports it as
- Highland Springs
- Phone
- (216) 302-3070
- Medicare ID
- 364053
Medicare Care Compare ↗ Hospital's website ↗ Where HIFLD got this record ↗ HIFLD hospitals (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: HIFLD hospitals inventory via FEMA (closed hospitals it still lists left out, hospitals opened since added), with Medicare Care Compare ratings matched by name and address.
Fire and EMS stations (1)
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Highland Hills Fire DepartmentHighland Hills
- Address
- 4019 Northfield Road, Highland Hills, OH 44122
- Coordinates
- 41.45059, -81.53205
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.
Public schools (2)
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Luther E Ball (Chjcf)Highland Hills
- Address
- 4321 Green Rd, Highland Hills, OH 44128
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 107
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 13
- NCES school ID
- 390023704674
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Warrensville Heights Early Learning Center1 of 5 stars · Warrensville Heights
- Address
- 4265 Northfield Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44128
- School district
- Warrensville Heights City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 185
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 2
- Report card, 2025-26
- 1 of 5 stars
- Ohio building IRN
- 020873
- NCES school ID
- 390450010885
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.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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Eastern Campus Art GalleryArt museum · Highland Hills
- What it is
- Art museum
- City
- Highland Hills
- Coordinates
- 41.44794, -81.50045
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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Highland Hills Police DepartmentHighland Hills
- Address
- 3700 Northfield Road, Highland Hills, OH 44122
- Coordinates
- 41.45933, -81.53353
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 (1)
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Tri-C East Campus2 Level 2 · Highland Hills
- Address
- 4250 Richmond Rd, Highland Hills, OH 44122
- Ports
- 2 Level 2
- Plugs
- J1772
- Network
- FLO
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-356-8911
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.
Spills reported since 2021 (2)
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Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2023-07-21 · Highland Hills
- Reported
- 2023-07-21
- What spilled
- Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
- Largest amount reported
- 1 gallons
- Where
- Highland Hills, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2307EPA0001238
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2021-01-12 · Warrensville Heights
- Reported
- 2021-01-12
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 100 gallons
- Where
- Warrensville Heights, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2101EPA0000038
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 Highland Hills, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
| ZIP | Share | Water | Radon | Home value | Schools | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44122 Shaker Heights and Beachwood | 1% | The Five Mile Crib, a small structure about 5 miles out in Lake Erie north of Cleveland's Edgewater Park | 1.9 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1954 | Shaker Heights City · 4 stars overall | 0.0% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 44128 Cleveland | 1% | The Five Mile Crib, a small structure about 5 miles out in Lake Erie north of Cleveland's Edgewater Park | 2.0 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1952 | Cleveland Municipal · 2.5 stars overall | 0.7% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
The county
Cuyahoga County: 52 ZIP codes, 59 cities, villages and townships, 1,270,867 people.
Nearby places
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Highland Hills, day by day, from 1871 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 2.09 in
- 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30
- rain so far in 2026
- 34.6 in
- about normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 49.1 in
- a normal year brings 37.6 in
- a normal year
- 41.1 in
- average of 20 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 2.09 | — | 30 |
| September 2026 | 2.15 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 7.25 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 2.54 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 3.17 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 4.04 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 6.42 | 0.1 | 30 |
| March 2026 | 2.99 | 1.5 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 1.02 | 9.3 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 2.93 | 38.2 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.96 | 16.1 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 2.86 | 12.1 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2011 — 66.1 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1963 — 20.9 in |
| Snowiest year | 2010 — 103.0 in |
| Wettest day on record | 3 February 1883 — 3.62 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 25 November 1950 — 12.92 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 18 December 1951 — 22.01 in |
Mostly estimated. Only 6% of these days come from a gauge standing inside Highland Hills - the rest are worked out from the nearest gauges around it, so read them as close estimates rather than readings.
49,269 days of records, 1871-01-01 to 2026-10-30. 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 2026-11-01): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-11-01 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 Highland Hills: 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
- 7
- those placed on the map inside Highland Hills
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Wastewater and stormwater discharge | 4 |
| Hazardous waste | 2 |
| Voluntary cleanup | 1 |
| Date | Facility or site | What |
|---|---|---|
| PIR 4052 - PATTERSON PARKWAY | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| NORTHFIELD MILL CREEK STREAM RESTORATION | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| NORTHFIELD MILL CREEK STREAM RESTORATION | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| HIGHLAND PARK GOLF COURSE | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| HIGHLAND HILLS, VILLAGE OF | Wastewater and stormwater discharge violation resolved | |
| VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND HILLS | Wastewater and stormwater discharge inspection | |
| WARRENSVILLE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER | Hazardous waste compliance letter | |
| HIGHLAND HILLS, VILLAGE OF | Wastewater and stormwater discharge report | |
| HIGHLAND HILLS, VILLAGE OF | Wastewater and stormwater discharge plan |
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 Highland Hills, Ohio in?
Highland Hills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 662 residents.
When was Highland Hills, Ohio founded?
Highland Hills was settled 1810 (Daniel Warren, namesake settler of Warrensville Township); incorporated 1990, from Warrensville Township, prompted by Figgie International's plan to relocate its headquarters to northeastern Ohio. Source
Where does Highland Hills, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Highland Hills (Cleveland Public Water System): The Five Mile Crib, a small structure about 5 miles out in Lake Erie north of Cleveland's Edgewater Park.
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