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Olmsted Falls is a city in southwestern Cuyahoga County, a suburb about 14 miles southwest of Cleveland.

Olmsted Falls takes its name from Aaron Olmsted, an East Hartford sea captain who bought the largest share of the local township from the Connecticut Land Company but died in 1806 before the sale of his land was even completed.

Olmsted Falls was incorporated as a village on April 7, 1856, near where Plum Creek flows into the Rocky River, and it doubled in size a year later by annexing the hamlet of Plum Creek.

The modern city was created by merger: in 1971 the villages of Olmsted Falls and West View combined under the Olmsted Falls name, and in 1972 it was recognized as Ohio's 231st city.

The population of Olmsted Falls was 8,582 at the 2020 census, down from 9,024 in 2010.

Olmsted Falls has about 3,823 households, and more than 83% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Downtown Olmsted Falls centers on Grand Pacific Junction, a historic shopping district of restored 19th-century buildings — including the Grand Pacific Hotel — near Bagley and Columbia Roads.

David Fortier River Park, a five-acre gorge park at the falls of the Rocky River's west branch, features stone walls and stairways quarried on site and the Harding Memorial Covered Bridge.

Sandstone quarries operated in Olmsted Falls from the 1870s into the early 20th century, and leftover quarry blocks can still be seen around David Fortier River Park.

The city is home to five public schools in the Olmsted Falls City School District, including Olmsted Falls High School.