Beachwood schools, city government and other agencies could see cuts after the U.S. Senate did not come to an agreement to stop $85 billion in federal cuts Thursday, and federal employees will feel the heat, too.

Beachwood City Schools won't feel the loss as much as other school districts.

It receives only small amount of federal funding — which fluctuates each year based on the number of free or reduced-priced lunches it serves.

But Cuyahoga County's 7,833 federal employees — not including Veterans' Affairs employees, who will likely not be affected — will feel the the $85 billion in cuts to the federal budget that will be made today.

The numbers here show the federal employees in Ohio by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employment Statistics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While much has been made written on how the current sequestration battle in Washington could affect the national economy, these numbers are meant to give readers a sense of the sequestration at the local level.

No one knows for certain what the sequestration cuts, some $85 billion, will mean exactly. Even if the March 1 federal cuts are enacted, the full effects would not be felt immediately. The government is required to alert impacted agencies of what cuts are to be made and what workers are to be furloughed.

It should be noted, however, that even the suggestion of cuts and the notification process itself could be felt in some community economies.

Uncertainty for federal workers means they are likely to tighten their belts until they see what the cuts look like – and how long they last. It means those workers will likely spend less money at local shops and restaurants.

In some communities there may be only a handful of federal workers and the impacts may be small. But, as these figures show, in other counties federal employees numbers in the thousands and in those places the sequestration could become a more significant pain, particularly if it drags on for weeks or months.

(U.S. Postal Service Employees are excluded in this count. The USPS receives no tax dollars in its operations and would not be affected by the sequestration cuts.)

*The federal employee count has been changed since this article's original publication to discount Veteran's Affairs employees, who will likely not be affected.