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Graysville, Ohio

village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ2668832 ↗
Source-derived summary

Graysville is a village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States. The population was 70 at the 2020 census.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km2), all of it land.

Demographics

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 76 people, 34 households, and 25 families living in the village. The population density was 75.2 inhabitants per square mile (29.0/km2). There were 38 housing units at an average density of 37.6 per square mile (14.5/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 89.5% White and 10.5% from two or more races.

There were 34 households, of which 23.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 26.5% were non-families. 26.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.64.

Editorial summary

“Graysville, Ohio” enters the record as village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Graysville, Ohio and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Graysville, Ohio and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Graysville, Ohio” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Graysville, Ohio and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2668832. Authority coordinates are 39.662, -81.179. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Graysville, Ohio”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Graysville, Ohio primary sources, Graysville, Ohio archive and Graysville research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Graysville, Ohio”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Graysville, Ohio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.