Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Strongsville, OH

Strongsville is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a suburb of Cleveland in the state's northeastern corner.

Strongsville was settled in 1816 by a party led by John Stoughton Strong in the Connecticut Western Reserve, officially became a township on February 25, 1818, became a village in 1923, and was designated a city in 1961.

Strongsville is named for John Stoughton Strong himself, the Vermont-born land agent who surveyed the 25-square-mile township and sold its lots to settlers.

Strongsville calls itself the 'Crossroads of the Nation' - a nickname born at the crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Southwestern Electric Line, and kept today for the junction of Interstate 71 and the Ohio Turnpike.

Strongsville had a population of 46,491 at the 2020 census, living in 18,643 households.

Strongsville covers about 24.6 square miles, making it one of the largest cities by land area in Cuyahoga County.

Strongsville contains part of the Cleveland Metroparks' Mill Stream Run Reservation, where the East Branch of the Rocky River runs past Bonnie Park and Ranger Lake.

Strongsville's Pomeroy House, built in 1847 by Alanson Pomeroy, was a stop on the Underground Railroad that hid escaped slaves before they were taken to boats on the Rocky River bound for Canada; it is now a restaurant.

Strongsville was briefly the childhood home of John D. Rockefeller, whose family moved there in 1853 when the future oil magnate was a boy.

Strongsville was struck by an F4 tornado on April 11, 1965, during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.