Graysville, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Turman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47882. The Survey maps it on the Merom quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Graysville within Sullivan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1943 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Hutsonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Graysville: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Abram and Hawkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crawford S & G East Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crawford S & G South Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graysville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Turner Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graysville in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2008	Flood	Graysville	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County due to heavy rain and snow melt.
March 2008	Flood	Graysville	$10,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in western Sullivan County. This flooding was a continuation from February flooding that began on February 5th at 20:00 EST. Approximately ten thousand dollars worth of property damage occurred during February.
February 2008	Flood	Graysville	$10,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in western sullivan County due to heavy rain and snow melt. Flooding continued until March 1st at 21:34.
August 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Graysville	$5,000	The tornado began near the intersection of County Road 350 North and 1125 West and tracked northeast. There was damage to multiple corn fields as well as multiple areas of tree damage along the path. A swirling pattern was noted in the sheared and downed corn stalks on County Road 1050 West, north of County Road 350 North. The tornado damage came to an end a half a mile northeast of where County Road 350 North turns north and becomes County Road 1000 West.
May 2008	Flood	Graysville	$5,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in western Sullivan County due to heavy rain.
December 2007	Flood	Graysville	$1,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including the Riverton area, due to heavy rain and snow melt. Flooding continued into January.
March 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County across from Hutsonville, IL. The river crested 6.6 feet above flood stage at the Hutsonville river gauge on March 17th with a reading of 22.6 feet. Floods in this area of Sullivan County affect agricultural/hunting land and county roads almost exclusively.
January 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of low lying agricultural land on the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near the Hutsonville, Illinois river gage. Flood affects were primarily felt in Illinois. This flood event is a continuation from December.
March 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Very minor flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including near Hutsonville, IL, due to heavy rain. The river crested only one tenth of a foot above flood stage.
April 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River on the western border of Sullivan County, chiefly west of Graysville, Indiana near Hutsonville, Illinois. The river crested at 21.2 feet on April 13th, 5.2 feet above flood stage. This reading was obtained at the Hutsonville, Illinois river gauge. Flooding of this height typically affects lowlands and county roads, and has more noticeable effects on the Illinois side of the river. Flooding continued into May.
May 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River around the Hutsonville, Indiana area. The river crested twice in May. The primary crest was 20.4 feet on May 7th and the secondary crest was 23.8 feet on the 21st. Flood stage is 16 feet. This flooding was a continuation from April. Crop damage value is a gross estimate.
February 2009	Flood	Graysville	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including near Hutsonville, Illinois, due to heavy rain.
December 2008	Flood	Graysville	-	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of low lying agricultural land on the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near the Hutsonville, Illinois river gage. Flood affects were primarily felt in Illinois. This flood event continued into January.
July 2008	Flood	Graysville	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County due to heavy rainfall.
July 2023	Hail	Graysville	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Graysville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Lightning	Graysville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dodds Bridge	3.2 miles	19
Merom	4.3 miles	20
Riverview	5.9 miles	19
Merom Station	6.1 miles	20
Riverton	6.7 miles	20
New Lebanon	6.9 miles	15
Scott City	7.1 miles	18
Fairbanks	7.3 miles	19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Graysville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5598438	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 435374. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.