Brookside, OH

Brookside is a Belmont County village of 538 people at the 2020 census, in eastern Ohio near the Ohio River and within the Wheeling metropolitan area. The village sits in a county shaped by coal, railroads, and Ohio Valley waterways. Wheeling Creek runs through the center of Brookside before reaching the Ohio River, while the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad corridor runs through the broader river valley.

That combination gives Brookside a clear regional setting even though the village's own local record is brief. The creek supplies the local line through town, the river places it near Wheeling, and Belmont County's coal-and-rail history supplies the larger working landscape. Brookside is a small village whose map is best read through those connections: eastern Belmont County, Wheeling Creek, the Ohio River, and the metropolitan orbit across the state line. That is enough to place Brookside in a landscape where village, county, and metro boundaries meet around the creek and river on the Ohio side.