Westfield Center Village

Westfield Center is an incorporated village with its own mayor, council, police department and wastewater plant, separate from the township around it. The Municipal Building is at 6701 Greenwich Road, P.O. Box 750, Westfield Center, OH 44251, phone 330-887-5151, with admin@westfieldcenter.org as the general email. Council meets there at 7:00 p.m. in Bittner Hall and live streams on YouTube, and the village also holds a Mayor's Court. The village's own council page in 2026 listed Rick Robbs as mayor with council members Karen Martin, Julie McNabb, Val Koneck, Greg Oakes and Craig Walkup. The village has a Board of Public Affairs, a Planning Commission and a Board of Zoning Appeals, and it levies a municipal income tax under Chapter 891 of its ordinances.

Source: Village of Westfield Center's own Village Government, Village Council, Municipal Income Tax and Public Meetings pages, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Center village runs its own police department, which is the clearest practical difference between the village and the unincorporated township next to it, where the Medina County Sheriff is the only road patrol. Emergencies go to 911; the village directs incident reports to 330-725-6631, the Medina County Sheriff's Office, because the Westfield Center Police Department is dispatched through the Sheriff. The number to leave a message for the department is 330-887-9110. The department issues permits for solicitation, for a resident selling a motor vehicle and for golf cart inspection, takes residential vacation watch requests, and publishes a complaint process with a supervisor follow-up call promised within 48 hours.

Source: Village of Westfield Center Police Department and Village Government pages, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

In Westfield Center village the sewer is the village's and the water is the county's. The village's own emergency contacts send sewer issues to the Westfield Waste Water Treatment Plant at 330-887-5025 and water issues to the Medina County Sanitary Engineers at 330-723-9585. An elected Board of Public Affairs runs the sewer, meets at the Municipal Building at 3:00 p.m., and bills on water consumption every two months, mailed in January, March, May, July, September and November with payment due on the fifteenth of the following month. New residents file a Sewer Service Application; automatic payment and credit card payment with a 3.5 per cent convenience fee are available. Trash is on a village contract with Rumpke at a published rate of $17.67 per month per unit, with bulk trash vouchers at Village Hall and village leaf collection in autumn.

Source: Village of Westfield Center Board of Public Affairs, Village Government emergency contacts and trash and leaf notices, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

The village's own history says New England settlers homesteaded beside Camel Creek in 1817, that Henry Thorndyke and James Fowler were the first landowners of the township's twenty-five square miles, and that Fowler named it after Westfield, Massachusetts. The village was established in 1826 and laid out as a New England settlement around a central four acre green, with the village hall facing the commons built two years later and soon joined by two churches, a general store and an inn. The post office arrived in 1836 and the place became known as LeRoy until the name was changed back to Westfield Center in 1971. A new Village Hall holding the municipal offices, police department and post office was dedicated in 2001, with a village park just north of it. The road around the green is Park Circle, and the insurance company's home office is addressed One Park Circle.

Source: Village of Westfield Center's own Village History page, read from an Internet Archive capture because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Center village runs a municipal electric aggregation programme, negotiating a generation rate for residents who opt in. The village published Energy Harbor as the supplier at $0.0487 per kilowatt hour through May 2024, renewed at $0.0682 per kilowatt hour from June 2024 through May 2027, with enrolment at 1-866-636-3749. The village points residents to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Apples to Apples tool to compare that rate with other suppliers. Aggregation covers generation only; the wires and the outage response stay with the utility serving the address.

Source: Village of Westfield Center Electric Aggregation page, read from an Internet Archive capture because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Insurance's home office is inside the village, not merely near it. One Park Circle geocodes to a point the Medina County 911 boundary file places in Westfield Center Village, and so do the country club clubhouse on Greenwich Road, the Westfield Inn, the Blair Center on S. Leroy Road and the fire station on Virginia Drive. The company itself describes the Inn as being in the village of Westfield Center. Westfield states on its own pages that it has approximately 2,800 hybrid and remote employees across the country and globally, $4.4 billion in direct written premium, and an A, Excellent, financial strength rating from A.M. Best held since 1934, writing personal insurance in nine states, commercial in twenty-one and surety in fifty. The village's own history page says the company put the village on the map and credits 1,800 employees in Westfield Center. The village's 44251 zip code and its municipal income tax both sit around that one payroll.

Source: Westfield Insurance's own About Us and Westfield Hospitality pages and the Village of Westfield Center's own Village History page, with every address run through the Medina County 911 jurisdiction boundary file · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Insurance runs three hospitality properties inside Westfield Center village, and two of them are open to the public. The Westfield Inn at 6789 Greenwich Road is a sixty-four room Georgian style hotel open to anyone, with standard rooms, deluxe rooms and suites, complimentary wifi and breakfast, in-room refrigerator, microwave and Keurig, and an on-site market; the company describes it as being in the village of Westfield Center, minutes from Route 224, I-71 and I-76. The Blair Center at 9079 S. Leroy Road is an event venue open to the public for booked events, holding up to 400 for a reception or 250 seated, with planners on staff and rooms including the Parlors, Club Room, Garden Room and Tavern Room. Westfield Country Club at 6500 Greenwich Road is members only; it opened in 1937 and has two eighteen hole courses, a pool, two tennis and four pickleball courts and golf simulators. All three are inside the village line.

Source: Westfield Insurance's own Westfield Hospitality pages for the Westfield Inn, the Blair Center and Westfield Country Club, with each address checked against the Medina County 911 jurisdiction boundary file · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Center village owns and runs its own recreation, unlike the township around it. Rory O'Neil Park off N. Leroy Road has ball fields, rebuilt in work the village announced starting 20 July 2015. The village also has tennis and pickleball courts and basketball courts, announced as open in June 2020. The park in the centre of the village, which the village calls Park Circle, can be reserved for events through Village Hall at 330-887-5151, and the village's calendar carries separate reservable categories for a gazebo and for park facilities. The village's history page describes a park just north of the 2001 Village Hall with picnic tables and a ten station exercise trail. A Westfield Center Park Master Plan was drawn up from a resident survey and town hall meetings and published by the village.

Source: Village of Westfield Center's own Park Construction, Park Circle, Westfield Center Park Master Plan, Village History and courts notices, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Center Cemetery is the village's own municipal cemetery and is a different place from Friendsville Cemetery on Friendsville Road in Westfield Township. The village's published legal notice gives the address as 6884 Greenwich Road and is issued by the Board of Cemetery Trustees of the Village of Westfield Center. Unused lots are reclaimed through that notice process, with claims proved to the Fiscal Officer at 6701 Greenwich Road, P.O. Box 750. A village Cemetery Committee recommended an additional lot transfer option and council approved it on 2 April 2024. The headstones have been photographed and mapped as an Eagle Scout project by Devin Filak of Boy Scout Troop 454, and the village publishes the map. The Memorial Day parade ends with a veterans tribute at the cemetery.

Source: Village of Westfield Center Cemetery Legal Notice, Change to Cemetery Lot Transfers, Westfield Center Cemetery and Memorial Day pages, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

The village's own events page lists the Labor Day Car Show as its main annual event, scheduled for Monday 7 September 2026, with questions to Village Hall at 330-887-5151, and a parade every Memorial Day followed by a veterans tribute at the Westfield Center Cemetery. The village also runs a residents-only Shred Day at the Municipal Building on a Saturday morning in May, free with a five-box limit, plus a tree lighting ceremony, announced mosquito spraying, a village garage sale, a varmint trapping programme and autumn leaf collection. Westfield Fire and Rescue has hosted a Breakfast With Santa at the station on Virginia Drive in early December. The village's 2026 events page opens by saying the village celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, two hundred years after it was established in 1826.

Source: Village of Westfield Center Village Events, 2026 Labor Day Car Show, Memorial Day, Shred Event, Varmint Control, Mosquito Spraying and Breakfast With Santa pages, read from Internet Archive captures because the live site was down · checked 2026-10-01

No grocery store, medical office or licensed child care centre could be found inside Westfield Center Village from a first-party source, and the village's own website names none. The village does have a post office: its own history page says the 2001 Village Hall at 6701 Greenwich Road houses the municipal offices, the police department and the post office, and there is a full service bank office at 2 Park Circle. For everything else residents go outside the village line. The nearest emergency department is Cleveland Clinic Akron General Lodi Hospital in Lodi, a 20-bed critical access hospital; Summa Health Wadsworth-Rittman has a 24-hour emergency department but no inpatient beds, and Aultman Orrville Hospital in Wayne County and Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital are the other options within reach. The nearest full-size supermarkets are in Lodi to the west and Wadsworth and Medina to the east. The nearest first-party verified preschool is the Cloverleaf district programme at Cloverleaf Elementary on Friendsville Road, outside the village in the township.

Source: Village of Westfield Center's own site read from Internet Archive captures, with Cleveland Clinic Akron General Lodi Hospital, Summa Health and Cloverleaf Local Schools for the places outside the village · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Center village is served by the Cloverleaf Local School District, and the district's own audited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2024, filed with the Auditor of State of Ohio, name the Village of Westfield Center in the territory description in Note 1. Those statements also record one elementary, one middle and one high school with 15 administrators, 186 certified and 192 non-certified staff serving 2,396 students. The village is not split: eight points spread across the village's own boundary polygon all return Cloverleaf against the Census Bureau's school district layer. All three school buildings are outside the village, on the Friendsville Road and Buffham Road corridor in Westfield Township.

Source: Cloverleaf Local School District single audit for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2024, Auditor of State of Ohio, cross-checked against the U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb unified school district boundary layer · checked 2026-10-01

Westfield Bank, FSB was headquartered at 2 Park Circle in Westfield Center village from 2001 until 2025. The FDIC record for certificate 57077 shows it established 5 February 2001, reporting about $2.06 billion in assets at its last call report on 30 September 2025, and merged without assistance effective 1 November 2025. First Financial Bancorp announced on 23 June 2025 that it would buy Westfield Bancorp from the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company for $325 million, $260 million in cash plus about 2.75 million shares worth roughly $65 million, and announced the closing on 3 November 2025, saying Westfield Bank locations would keep the name until a systems conversion anticipated in March 2026. The village still has a bank: 2 Park Circle is now a First Financial Bank full service office, established 1 November 2025, and is no longer a headquarters.

Source: FDIC BankFind institution and location records for certificate 57077 and for First Financial Bank, with First Financial Bancorp's own announcement press releases filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission · checked 2026-10-01

The Universalist Church of Westfield Center is on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Park Service's register locations record gives reference number 78002135, a certification date of November 1978, and an address of LeRoy and Greenwich Roads in Westfield Center, Medina County, at a point the Medina County 911 boundary file places inside Westfield Center Village. That corner is the public square the village laid out as a four acre green when it was established in 1826. Westfield Township's own history timeline records the Universalist church as organised in May 1839 in the old school house. It is the only National Register listing found inside the village.

Source: National Park Service National Register of Historic Places locations dataset, reference number 78002135, with the Westfield Township history timeline for the 1839 organising date · checked 2026-10-01