BlockGranville, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Granville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43023. It lies near Parnassus Hill. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle. 5,946 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1908 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Granville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 12 of 13 shown
Avery-Hunter Houselisted 1979
A. A. Bancroft Houselisted 1980
Bryn Mawrlisted 1983
Buxton Innlisted 1972
Wallace W. Carpenter Houselisted 1980
Dustin Cabinlisted 1980
McCune's Villalisted 1982
Rogers Houselisted 1980
Capt. Levi Rose Houselisted 1980
St. Luke's Episcopal Churchlisted 1976- Colony Burying Ground, Oldlisted 2005
- Granville Historic Districtlisted 1980
Every listing in Licking County
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 200 East Broadway, Granvillefederal building survey, 14 photographs
Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 8 records
- Buxton HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1896 to 1905
- First Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896 to 1905
- Welsh ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896 to 1905
- Hulshizer Milling CoMill, in the atlas of 1896
- Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896
- Opera HouseOpera House, in the atlas of 1896
- Pratt & Montgomery, Planing MillPlaning Mill, in the atlas of 1896
- Presbyterian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896
Population over time
2 figuresGranville grew from 5,646 to 5,946 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,646 | |
| 2020 | 5,946 | +300 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Granville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
48,426 words on this townshipHistory of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Granville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The township was organized in 1807, out of the west half of Licking township, Fairfield county. The latter township then embraced all of what is now Licking county, except the Refugee lands. This being cut in two in the center, the west half was named Granville, and was, therefore, the second township organized in this territory.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
An Indian trail branched from the main trail near Newark, and passed across the township up the Raccoon valley to the Wyandot village near Johnstown. Unfortunately no Indian history has been preserved in connection with this township - and this is the case, also, with most other town- ships in the county - though there is no doubt that this territory, especially the valley of the Raccoon, was extensively used by them as a hunting ground. No permanent Indian camps appear to have had an existence here, unless prior to historic times.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
The works of the Mound Builders in this township are very numerous and interesting; indeed, in number and varied character are scarcely excelled by those of Newark township. The Raccoon valley and contiguous territory constitute, probably, the most interesting territory in the State, or even in the United States for the antiquarian. Mounds of different sizes and heights, earthworks of every kind known to the historian exist here in great numbers. Numbers yet to be seen and traced may almost be counted by the hundred, while many, very many, have disappeared entirely, by the ravages of time and the plow, and live only in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. No particular care seems to be taken to preserve these mounds and works. Wherever they are in the way of the tiller of the soil, they are ruthlessly plowed down or dug away. They are disappearing with comparative rapidity, and very soon, with few exceptions, will live only in history. Occcasionally they are erected upon high peaks, or places inaccessible to the plow and cultivator, and in such places are, of course, in the best state of preservation. The traveler between Newark and Granville will observe many of these mounds, a few yet pretty well preserved, even on the extensive and rich bottoms of the Raccoon; but the better preserved works, and those probably the most interesting, are located upon the hills that shut in the valley. Captain M. M. Munson, who occupies a beautiful farm in the midst of these mounds, and who has made them something of a study, is confident that around the great Aligator mound, located not far from his house, is a complete system of mounds and earthworks that point to it as a common center. However this may be, there is certainly a large circle of works in this vicinity, extending several miles in every direction, and seemingly connected with each other and with the "Old Fort" near Newark and its contiguous works.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Granville Township - it names this place 146 more 146 times.
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 3,014 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,014 specimens collected within 10 miles of Granville between 1843 and 1975: 2,696 Animalia, 241 Fungi, 48 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | F. S. Robinson | |
 | Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822 | 1893 | unknown | Licking Reservoir |
 | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1893 | J.B. Ellis | Granville |
 | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | 1843 | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | Mack, D. (Don) | Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1872 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA |
 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | 1874 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813) | 1878 | Savage, E. (Ed) | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
All 3,014 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Granville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockport Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted and several buildings were damaged at Lake Hudson near Granville. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down from 200 to 300 trees on a 5 mile path north and northeast of Granville. Nickel size hail also occurred in Newark. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $40,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Granville area. A few barns were also damaged and/or destroyed and a home just south of town was damaged. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $30,000 | Numerous trees and power poles were downed. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $24,000 | Twelve power poles were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $12,000 | Numerous power poles and trees were reported down. A few roofs were damaged and the main antenna at the 911 center was bent. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed from Granville to Newark. A tree fell on a car in Granville. Quarter size hail also occurred. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed from Denison University into Newark. A few trees fell on parked automobiles, causing minor damage. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Granville | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area. There were numerous reports of water flowing over roads in Union Township, Hebron, and the Buckeye Lake area. One woman was trapped in a car due to high water. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | A tree fell onto power lines. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | Several trees were downed near the intersection of Burg Street and New Burg Street. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Several trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | A few trees were downed in the Newark and Granville areas. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $3,000 | Several large limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Granville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed in the Granville area. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $2,000 | Trees were downed on Welsh Hills Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | A tree was downed onto Cambria Mill Road. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | One tree was reported down at Highway 16 and Cherry Valley Road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $1,000 | A tree was blown down and blocking a road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $500 | Multiple wires were knocked down at Burg Street and Thornewood Drive. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Granville | - | Minor street and low lying flooding was occurring due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Granville | - | High water washed out a berm on State Route 661. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welsh Hills | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Union Station | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Blanchard (historical) | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Central City (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Scott Corners | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Goddard Corners | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Heath | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sandstone Canyon | 5.1 miles | 11 |
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 Granville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2485187 | 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 1061369. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.