Melrose Ohio Map

About Melrose, Ohio

Melrose is a locality in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 233. The population density is 105.1 people per km². Melrose is located at 41.0887°N, 84.4200°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Melrose is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 45861, 44145, 45873.

Melrose occupies a quiet expanse of land where the flat horizon is interrupted only by the seasonal rhythms of the soil and the persistent, low-slung presence of Sperry Creek. It lies 1.9 miles north-northwest of Fairview Park, OH (from Fairview Park, OH: bearing 339°T), and is situated 9.7 miles west-southwest of Cleveland. The water of the creek carves a modest path through the earth, marking the landscape with a silver ribbon that reflects the pale, expansive sky of the interior plains. To the north, the distant silhouette of North Ridge provides a faint, serrated edge to the skyline, while the heavy, humid air of mid-summer settles over the fields like a thick blanket. At the Clague Play House, the local light at dusk takes on a bruised, golden hue, casting long, deliberate shadows across the grass that seem to slow the very passage of time.

Melrose bears the quiet marks of a settlement built upon the steady labor of the inland interior, where the economy has long leaned into the yields of the surrounding acreage. While the reach of Lake Erie provides a cooling influence on the regional climate, the daily life here remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the maintenance of the land. History is felt in the sturdy, unadorned architecture that lines the lanes, constructed by those who favored utility and endurance over ornamentation. Though the industrial echoes of the broader region occasionally drift through, Melrose maintains a stubborn, autonomous pace, defined by the people who continue to work the earth and find a plain, functional beauty in the honest utility of their surroundings.

About This Melrose Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Melrose, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.088719, -84.420035. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Melrose includes the ZIP code (45861, 44145, 45873), telephone area code (216, 234, 330), county seat of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), and school district assignment (Paulding Exempted Village School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.