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Update:

The City of Cleveland now maintains a public, current of numerous boundary files: https://data.clevelandohio.gov/search?q=boundaries

When this repository was created and maintained, the City of Cleveland Boundary files weren't publicly available or easily accessible.

I had hoped that this repository would become (mostly obsolete) one day and that day has finally come.

The only data here that I plan to maintain (which isn't yet publicly available elsewhere) is the historical Cleveland annexation boundaries.

To download the GEOJSON Files, you may need to right-click on the URL and choose 'save link as'.

For data where I didn't specify the license, I don't what know it is (I didn't make the data set), assume your own risk.

Historical Landmark Districts are areas designated by the City Planning Commission as an area containing any physical features or improvements or both which are of historical, social, cultural, architectural or aesthetic significance to the City of Cleveland, State of Ohio, or the United States, and cause such area to constitute a distinctive section of the City of Cleveland.

Download as geoJSON

Download as SHP

Obtained from City of Cleveland's Planning Department

policedistricts:

Cleveland Police Department's Districts

Download as geoJSON

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cdc_service_boundaries:

Community Development Corporations play an important role in the city of Cleveland. They are non-profit organizations that provide services (economic development, community organizing, )
and public programming in a specific neighborhood or area. These files are geographic service areas for each of the recognized CDCs within the city of Cleveland, Ohio, as of the respective years, as noted in the folders.

Download 2017 CDC Service Boundaries as SHP

Download 2019 CDC Service Boundaries as SHP

Source: Cleveland Neighborhood Progress License: Attribution (TO VERIFY)

voting_precincts:

These are county-wide for Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Download as GEOJSON used for the November 3, 2020 elections

Source: Cuyahoga County Board of Elections

Cleveland Annexations

Geographic polygons that represent the land that the City of Cleveland (Ohio) annexed ('acquired') in its history. These were mostly derived from two secondary sources, what I call: the 1968 map and the Volkmann/1941 map.

I claim no copyright to this work although attribution is greatly appreciated.

The 1968 Map {#1968}

(metadata from the Cleveland Public Library)

Title: : Annexations to the city of Cleveland

Author: : Cleveland Dept. of Public Service, Div of Engineering and Construction;

Date: : 3-20-74/1814-1954

Subject: : Territorial expansion

Call number: : (qG 4084. C5F35 1954aa . C5) at the Cleveland Public Library

Map states in lower right hand corner, "Drawn April 1968" originally issued as 1 sheet;

This is a hand-drawn map of the annexations through the mid 20th century. It is one sheet originally; but I received a scan of this in two parts, as two files from the Cleveland Public Library's Map Collection and I didn't sew/merge them together).

This is NOT IN the Cleveland Public Library public catalog, it's only in the Cleveland Public Library's Map Collection's catalog; only browsable in person at CPL's Map Collection. Tom Edwards of the CPL Map Collection said that there are many items in the map collection in the paper card catalog that are NOT listed yet in the public catalog.

Digitally view the 1968 map (on flickr):

The following are also available as accompanying documents to the aforementioned source. I need to confirm that these documents supplement the above

Sheet C lists the dates of annexations
Sheet/Supplement D is a a more generalized map of Cleveland annexations

Download the original, uncompressed (as TIF, each are up to 130mb) images:

There is a separate item similar to this 1968 annexation map in the CPL catalog.
Its call number is: G4084.C5F7 1974 .C5X

(I don't have a copy of this digitally; and as of 2018-05, I'm unsure if i've seen it; I'm near certain it is the same item that I mention above because it's listed as being only in the public administration library and its metadata is extremely similar to the "1968 map"..

Source #2 (subsequently referred in my notes as the "1941" or Volkman map)

Title: : Annexations to the city of Cleveland

Author: : Volkman, William F.

Publication Information: : [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1941.

Physical Description: : 1 map ; 89 x 96 cm.

General Note: : Outline map. Cleveland Documents Microfilm Project. In PAL and Microform Center. Reel 4.53.

Call numbers (yes, there are 3): : G4084.C5F35 1932 .V6X REEL 4.53 : 422.77132 V885A : G4084.C5F35 1932 .V6X

View the the Volkman map on flickr or download the original, uncompressed TIF of the Volkman map

Additional resources:

After initially relying upon the Volkman and 1968 maps, I realized that I could use historic plat maps from Sanborn and Hopkins some which are available from the Cleveland Public Library's Digital Map Collection and The Library of Congress published some of them online. The Sanborn and Hopkins maps represent property-level maps of historic Cleveland from the early 20th century and late 19th century. They are not georeferenced but are still a good secondary source to obtain the boundaries.

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Cleveland Annexations

The 1968 Map {#1968}

Source #2 (subsequently referred in my notes as the "1941" or Volkman map)

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