Broadview Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 19,400 at the 2010 census. Indians occupied the territory that Broadview Heights rests on today until 1811, when the first white man, Seth Paine, settled on the territory. He was sent by Colonel John Breck as a surveyor of the land and was given a compensation of 200 acres (0.81 km2). The land that Colonel Breck surveyed was called Brecksville Township, and today the cities of Broadview Heights, Brecksville, and North Royalton make up the land.