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History · Highland Hills

Highland Hills was first counted by the census in 2000, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Highland Hills was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. 1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 7 buildings. Below: 13 old photos and papers, maps from 1903 on, and the census since 2000.

2000first census
1on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
13old photos & papers
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From Highland Hills’ archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Highland Hills began

When was Highland Hills founded?

2000

Highland Hills first appears in the census in 2000. Another post office, Warrensville (1832), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 1,618 in 20002020 census: 66226 years
Founding year: the first census.

What stands out about Highland Hills’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

On the map since 19035 editions of the USGS map, 1903 to 1994. Watch Highland Hills change.A town in postcards13 old photos, postcards and papers.
★ What stands out · On the map

Highland Hills on the map, 1903 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Highland Hills. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Highland Hills on the 1903 USGS mapHighland Hills on the 1953 USGS mapHighland Hills on the 1963 USGS mapHighland Hills on the 1970 USGS mapHighland Hills on the 1994 USGS map1903Cleveland sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Highland Hills.

By decade

Highland Hills, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s13 items
Warrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, Ohio1911Warrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, OhioPostcardWarrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, Ohio1911Warrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, OhioPostcardInterior Court, Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio1914Interior Court, Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, OhioPostcardInterior Court, Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio1914Interior Court, Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, OhioPostcardWarrensville Farm. Cleveland sixth city1914Warrensville Farm. Cleveland sixth cityPostcardWarrensville Farm. Cleveland sixth city1914Warrensville Farm. Cleveland sixth cityPostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 01 - DPLA - 515d671be529ed616bc145d2832a0d03 (page 1)c. 1915Warrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 01 - DPLA - 5…PostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 01 - DPLA - 515d671be529ed616bc145d2832a0d03 (page 2)c. 1915Warrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 01 - DPLA - 5…PostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 02 - DPLA - 4e64b85f6e4fcbdeba750573a42636eb (page 1)1915Warrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 02 - DPLA - 4…PostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 02 - DPLA - 4e64b85f6e4fcbdeba750573a42636eb (page 2)1915Warrensville Farm, Cleveland Sixth City 02 - DPLA - 4…PostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio 03 - DPLA - cc7562de8b0a558e7e4b5b86b78e69e8 (page 1)1918Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio 03 - DPLA - cc7562…PostcardWarrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio 03 - DPLA - cc7562de8b0a558e7e4b5b86b78e69e8 (page 2)1918Warrensville Farm, Cleveland, Ohio 03 - DPLA - cc7562…PostcardPlat of Property, Showing Existing Buildings, City Farm Colony, Warrensville, Ohio. May 6, 1918; Revised to Oct. 1, 191…1919Plat of Property, Showing Existing Buildings, City Fa…
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today5 recent
Map of Cuyahoga County Ohio Highlighting Highland Hills Village2015Map of Cuyahoga County Ohio Highlighting Highland Hil…MapHighland Hills, Ohio - police vehicle2014Highland Hills, Ohio - police vehicleCuyahoga Community College2011Cuyahoga Community CollegeHighlandHills-CuyahogaCoOH2006HighlandHills-CuyahogaCoOHOHMap-doton-Highland Hills2004OHMap-doton-Highland Hills
The story so far

Highland Hills, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Highland Hills yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Highland Hills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 662 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Cleveland, it was formally incorporated in 1990.

Its first post office opened in 2000. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,130 to 662 (-41%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Highland Hills, 1832 to 1941

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1832Post officeThe Warrensville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1903On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1911In the archiveWarrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, Ohio
  6. 1941Post officeThe Warrensville post office closes
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Warrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, Ohio
Retake this viewWarrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland, Ohio, 1911

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Highland Hills’ page.

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On the National Register

1 listing protects 7 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
7
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Cooley Farms
Cooley Farms
Districts

Architectural styles listings

Spanish Mission1
Victorian Italianate1
All 1 listings
Cooley FarmsDistrict · listed 1979

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Highland Hills, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,6001,80020002020Peak: 1,618

Between 662 and 1,618 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Highland Hills’ Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Highland Hills

Nobody well known was born in Highland Hills itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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James A. GarfieldPresident of the United States in 1881 · b. 1831
Debra WingerAmerican actress · b. 1955
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Mary OliverAmerican poet · b. 1935
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Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian · b. 1964
Martha ChaseAmerican geneticist · b. 1927
Christine ChubbuckAmerican television news reporter · b. 1944
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Warrensville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Warrensville Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Highland Hills
Cleveland Memorial GardensHighland Park

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Help out

Finish Highland Hills’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewWarrensville Infirmary, near Cleveland,…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Warrensville HeightsIts storyDBeachwood2 historic placesCShaker Heights5 historic placesA−

Questions about Highland Hills’ history

What year was Highland Hills founded?

The Highland Hills post office opened in 2000, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Highland Hills?

One place: the Cooley Farms (listed 1979).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (18), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.