Bedford, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 41° 23' 34'' North , 81° 32' 13'' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 41.39285,-81.53702 |
| Köppen climate type: | Dfa : Hot-summer humid continental climate |
| Other/historical region names associated with this locality: | Bedford Township |
Bedford is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and an eastern suburb of Cleveland. The area was first surveyed by Seth Pease and Amzi Atwater under General Moses Cleaveland for the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. Bedford’s first settlers arrived in 1813 and Bedford Township was officially founded in 1823. It was named Bedford Township by settler Daniel Benedict, who named it after his old hometown of Bedford, New York (Caldwell, 2012, p. 7).
Bedford attracted many early industries that took advantage of the Tinker’s Creek as it was a fast-flowing water source to operate mills. Bedford attained city status in 1837 and the township was most agricultural until the 1900s. One of the early industries was the Taylor Chair Company. The Taylor Chair Company was founded in 1816 by Benjamin Franklin Fitch and remains one of the oldest family operated companies in northeast Ohio (Anonymous, 2016).
In 1915, the city of Maple Heights was incorporated which further divided Bedford Township. In 1951, the northeast portion of the township decided to break away from Bedford and became Bedford Heights. Following suit later in 1951, the villages of Oakwood and Walton Hills were incorporated as well. At that point, Bedford Township became a “paper township”, which existed on maps, but no longer had governmental powers.
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Regional Geology
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| Mississippian - Devonian 323.2 - 419.2 Ma ID: 2752716 | Maxville Limestone; Rushville, Logan, and Cuyhoga Formations, Undivided Age: Paleozoic (323.2 - 419.2 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Maxville Limestone; Rushville Formation; Logan Formation; Cuyhoga Formation Description: Shale, siltstone, and sandstone, interbedded; various shades of gray, yellow to brown weather similar color; sandstone, silty to granular, local stringers of quartz pebbles. Shale, clayey to silty, locally fossiliferous. Medium to dark gray, thin to thick bedded limestone locally preserved at top of interval where unit crops out in southern half of state. Lithologies percentages vary in different areas where unit crops out; laterial and vertical gradation common at regional scale. Lithology: Major:{shale,siltstone,sandstone}, Minor:{conglomerate,limestone}, Incidental:{chert} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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Localities in this Region
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga Co.
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