North Royalton, Ohio

North Royalton is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 30,444 at the 2010 census. Originally incorporated as a village in 1927, it achieved the status of city in 1961.

Geography

North Royalton is located at 41°19′20″N 81°44′47″W / 41.322276°N 81.746393°W / 41.322276; -81.746393.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.32 square miles (55.22 km²), of which 21.31 square miles (55.19 km²) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km²) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 28,647 people, 11,250 households, and 7,695 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,345.9 people per square mile (519.5/km²). There were 11,754 housing units at an average density of 552.2 per square mile (213.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.18% White, 0.71% African American, 0.12% Native American, 1.99% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 0.83% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.95% of the population.

North

North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west.

Etymology

The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit ner-, meaning "down" (or "under"). (Presumably a natural primitive description of its concept is "to the left of the rising sun".)

The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, the father of Calais and Zetes. Septentrionalis is from septentriones, "the seven plow oxen", a name of Ursa Maior. The Greek arktikos is named for the same constellation, and is the derivation of the English word "Arctic".

Other languages have sometimes more interesting derivations. For example, in Lezgian, kefer can mean both 'disbelief' and 'north', since to the north of the Muslim Lezgian homeland there are areas formerly inhabited by non-Muslim Caucasian and Turkic peoples. In many languages of Mesoamerica, "north" also means "up". In Hungarian the word for north is észak, which is derived from éjszaka ("night"), since above the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun never shines from the north.