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# East 40th Gas, Cleveland: a gas station in Cleveland (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/cleveland/east-40th-gas-cleveland-oh. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-03. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/cleveland/east-40th-gas-cleveland-oh

## In short

East 40th Gas, located at 3939 Community College Ave in Cleveland, serves as a convenient stop for locals in need of fuel. With a rating of 3.4 from over 100 reviews, it offers a straightforward experience for those on the go. While it does not provide online ordering or reservations, customers appreciate its accessibility and the essential services it provides. This gas station is a familiar fixture in the community, catering to the everyday needs of Cleveland residents.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Gas station |
| Address | 3939 Community College Ave #3316, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun Open 24 hours |
| Phone | (216) 881-1400 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 3.4 across 108 reviews |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | August 23, 2026, 10:07 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Name | East 40th Gas | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Location info | Address | 3939 Community College Ave #3316, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (216) 881-1400 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Location info | Mondays | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 3939 Community College Ave #3316, Cleveland, OH 44115 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Open 24 hours | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 23, 2026 |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

Nothing found


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting East 40th

Address: 3939 Community College Ave #3316, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA. Phone: (216) 881-1400. Hours: Mon to Sun Open 24 hours. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by East 40th on its Google Business Profile: "3939 Community College Ave #3316, Cleveland, OH 44115"


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Krispy Krunchy Chicken | Chicken restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Community College Av & E 40th St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Quincy Av & E 40th St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Community College Av & E 38th St | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| Community College Av & E 38th St | Transit station | 3 min walk |
| Community College Av & E 38th St | Bus stop | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

3.4 average across 108 reviews.


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about East 40th found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Listed on 1 of the 17 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| Facebook | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Recent updates from East 40th

East 40th hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### best gas station in Cleveland

No answer yet


### ordering here online, does that actually work?

No answer yet


### is there a rewards thing at East 40th

No answer yet


### do they do payment plans here?

No answer yet


### opening hours at East 40th in Cleveland, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### Somewhere to park near East 40th?

No answer yet


### lunch near Community College, what is good

No answer yet


### going rate for stations locally, any idea

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at East 40th?

No answer yet


### budget options in Cleveland, what is decent

No answer yet


### Busiest day at East 40th, anyone know?

No answer yet


### torn between East 40th and bp?

No answer yet


### walking in for a first visit, what happens

No answer yet


### walk ins, or is it booked solid

No answer yet


### Booking here, how does it work?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about East 40th

We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about East 40th. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 24, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 28 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Cleveland gas stations run 17 to 53. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. East 40th scores 28, below the Cleveland average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | East 40th |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 7 answers that recommended anyone. 22 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 40 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 67 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a gas station

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a gas station in Ohio, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Ohio.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including East 40th if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to East 40th |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| East 40th Gas | LocalBusiness | #business | Nothing found | Subject of this page |
| Cleveland, Ohio | City | #city | Nothing found | City East 40th is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the gas stations in Cleveland, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best gas stations in Cleveland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/cleveland/gas-station
- Best businesses in Cleveland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/cleveland


### Nearby

- /columbus: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/columbus
- /toledo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/toledo
- /grove-city: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/grove-city
- /gahanna: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/gahanna
- /dublin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/dublin
- /reynoldsburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/reynoldsburg


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Ohio: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own East 40th Gas. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJuT7YVPf6MIgRXGNKNENI9I4 (accessed Aug 23, 2026)