Walton Hills
Village · Cuyahoga County · 2,033 residents · 2.5% municipal income tax
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How Walton Hills began
The land that became Walton Hills was carved from the southwestern part of Bedford Township. An early attempt to develop it, R. B. Hartwig's 1922 Robinhurst Heights subdivision meant as low-income workers' housing, collapsed with the Great Depression. Real-estate developer Ludwig S. Conelly bought the J. C. Walton farm in 1937 and laid roads, including the new Walton Road that gave the future village its name, and set 40,000-square-foot minimum lot sizes to build an exclusive, spacious-lot 'country village' instead. Walton Hills incorporated in 1951, and in 1954 the Ford Motor Company opened a stamping plant there that ran for sixty years before closing in 2014.
Platted 1937 (Ludwig S. Conelly buys the J. C. Walton farm and lays roads, including Walton Road), incorporated 1951, from the southwestern part of Bedford Township, by Ludwig S. Conelly (developer who shaped the village's roads and lot sizes).
Where the name comes from
The village takes its name from Walton Road, itself named for J. C. Walton, whose farm developer Ludwig S. Conelly bought in 1937 and subdivided with large, exclusive lots.
Before the town
No source we reviewed identifies a specific, named Native American village, mound, or treaty site within present Walton Hills; the land was part of southwestern Bedford Township, in the Tinker's Creek watershed, ceded to the United States by the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Nations recorded here: Lenape (Delaware), Wyandot.
Timeline
- — The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad erects the Tinkers Creek Viaduct through what becomes Walton Hills, documented in a contemporary engineering journal.
- — R. B. Hartwig plats the Robinhurst Heights subdivision, intended as housing for low-income workers; the Depression prevents it from taking hold.
- — Developer Ludwig S. Conelly buys the J. C. Walton farm and lays roads, including the new Walton Road, setting 40,000-square-foot minimum residential lot sizes.
- — Walton Hills incorporates as a village, created from the southwestern part of Bedford Township.
- — The Ford Motor Company opens a stamping plant in Walton Hills.
- — Population stands at 1,776.
- — Population peaks in this period at 2,508.
- — The Ford stamping plant closes after sixty years of operation.
Stories
A failed workers' subdivision, then an exclusive country village
Walton Hills almost became something quite different from what it is today. In 1922, R. B. Hartwig platted a subdivision called Robinhurst Heights on the same ground, explicitly intended as housing for low-income workers -- but the Great Depression arrived before the plan could take hold, and it was abandoned. Fifteen years later, developer Ludwig S. Conelly bought the J. C. Walton farm and took the opposite approach: he laid out roads, including Walton Road itself, and set minimum residential lot sizes of 40,000 square feet, deliberately building toward what the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History calls an 'exclusive country village' rather than Hartwig's abandoned worker-housing vision. That large-lot character defined the village through its 1951 incorporation, even as the 1954 arrival of a Ford Motor Company stamping plant gave it a substantial industrial employer for the next sixty years, until the plant closed in 2014.
Photographs
Photo: Frank W. Skinner, published in Engineering Record, 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 System56% of residentsLake Erie
- Bedford City44% of residentsLake Erie
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Walton Hills's boundary: 1 nursing home, 1 police station, 5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 3 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Nursing homes (1)
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Aventura at Walton Hills2 of 5 stars · Walton Hills
- Address
- 19859 Alexander Rd, Walton Hills, OH 44146
- Certified beds
- 99
- Residents on an average day
- 77
- 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 2025-02-11)
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain
- AVENTURA HEALTH GROUP
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (440) 439-4433
- Medicare ID
- 365705
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.
Police stations (1)
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Walton Hills Police DepartmentWalton Hills
- Address
- 7595 Walton Road, Walton Hills, OH 44146
- Coordinates
- 41.35880, -81.54528
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.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (5)
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Commonwealth Aluminum Co Bedford Coil Coating DivToxics Release Inventory · Bedford
- Address
- 7130 Krick Rd., Bedford, OH 44146
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44146BRMTL7130K
- EPA registry ID
- 110000388214
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Excel Finishing IncToxics Release Inventory · Walton Hills
- Address
- 7120 Krick Road, Walton Hills, OH 44146
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)
- EPA program ID
- 44146NRNDX7120K
- EPA registry ID
- 110000388321
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Excel Finishing Inc.Toxics Release Inventory · Walton Hills
- Address
- 7120 Krick Rd., Walton Hills, OH 44146
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44146XCLFN7120K
- EPA registry ID
- 110067042033
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Ferro Corp Walton Hills OpsToxics Release Inventory · Walton Hills
- Address
- 7050 Krick Rd., Walton Hills, OH 44146
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44146FRRCR7050K
- EPA registry ID
- 110000701483
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Ford Motor Company- Walton Hills Stamping PlantToxics Release Inventory · Walton Hills
- Address
- 7845 Northfield Road, Walton Hills, OH 44146
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44146WLTNH7845N
- EPA registry ID
- 110000388312
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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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2025-07-07 · Walton Hills
- Reported
- 2025-07-07
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road); Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos)
- Where
- Walton Hills, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2507EPA0001123
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Gray Reached water2026-06-08 · Walton Hills
- Reported
- 2026-06-08
- What spilled
- Material Gray
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Walton Hills, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2606EPA0001009
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2026-05-03 · Walton Hills
- Reported
- 2026-05-03
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 30 gallons
- Where
- Walton Hills, Cuyahoga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2605EPA0000745
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 Walton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44146 Bedford | 7% | The Five Mile Crib, a small structure about 5 miles out in Lake Erie north of Cleveland's Edgewater Park | 2.5 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1959 | Bedford City · 3 stars overall | 0.4% 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 Walton Hills, day by day, from 1871 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 1.83 in
- 2026-09-29 to 2026-10-28
- rain so far in 2026
- 35.1 in
- about normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 45.3 in
- a normal year brings 36.0 in
- a normal year
- 40.7 in
- average of 20 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1.83 | — | 28 |
| September 2026 | 3.04 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 6.54 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 3.08 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 2.88 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 4.29 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 6.52 | 0.1 | 30 |
| March 2026 | 3.51 | 1.8 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 0.89 | 9.7 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 2.48 | 33.7 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.78 | 16.0 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 2.26 | 9.9 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2011 — 63.5 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1934 — 21.9 in |
| Snowiest year | 2010 — 108.0 in |
| Wettest day on record | 3 February 1883 — 3.62 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 10 November 1913 — 13.39 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 18 December 1951 — 22.01 in |
Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside Walton Hills, so every figure here is worked out from the gauges around it - the nearest ones weighted most. Treat them as close estimates rather than readings.
43,290 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 Walton 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
- 42
- those placed on the map inside Walton Hills
Data centers, power and big tech here. Ohio EPA files that name a data-center company, a power plant or substation, or a large technology firm:
- JUNIPER SUBSTATION - CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO (hazardous waste, latest May 2, 2017)
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Hazardous waste | 14 |
| Voluntary cleanup | 9 |
| Site assessment | 8 |
| Air pollution | 7 |
| Wastewater and stormwater discharge | 2 |
| Contaminated-site cleanup | 1 |
| Landfills | 1 |
| Date | Facility or site | What |
|---|---|---|
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| CARR BROS INC | Air pollution violation resolved | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste notice of violation | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| CARR BROS INC | Air pollution notice of violation | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste notice of violation | |
| FORD MOTOR STAMPING PLT CLEVELAND | Voluntary cleanup covenant | |
| FORD MOTOR STAMPING PLT CLEVELAND | Voluntary cleanup covenant | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste inspection | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste assessment | |
| CARR BROS INC | Air pollution notice of violation | |
| POLYMER ADDITIVES INC DBA VALTRIS SPECIALTY CHEM | Air pollution report | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste assessment | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste assessment | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| FORD MOTOR STAMPING PLT CLEVELAND | Voluntary cleanup covenant | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| POLYMER ADDITIVES INC DBA VALTRIS SPECIALTY CHEM | Air pollution permit | |
| REWORLD BEDFORD LLC | Hazardous waste permit | |
| FORD MOTOR STAMPING PLT CLEVELAND | Voluntary cleanup covenant | |
| FORD MOTOR STAMPING PLT CLEVELAND | Voluntary cleanup covenant |
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 Walton Hills, Ohio in?
Walton Hills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 2,033 residents.
When was Walton Hills, Ohio founded?
Walton Hills was laid out 1937 (Ludwig S. Conelly buys the J. C. Walton farm and lays roads, including Walton Road); incorporated 1951, from the southwestern part of Bedford Township. Founders on record: Ludwig S. Conelly (developer who shaped the village's roads and lot sizes). Source
How did Walton Hills, Ohio get its name?
The village takes its name from Walton Road, itself named for J. Source
What ZIP code is Walton Hills, Ohio?
Most of Walton Hills is in ZIP code 44146.
Where does Walton Hills, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Walton 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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