Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Grayson, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elizabeth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45373. The Survey maps it on the Tipp City quadrangle.

Grayson within Miami County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grayson, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Grayson, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Elizabeth township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880 - Elizabeth Township

Game

of 8quirrrfln1h,?t game abounded in the forests. The hunters killed large numbers encountered n Pbeafants' etc- Wolves, bears and panthers were frequently morning Thio* ^atcJ* that ^av*d H. Morris, Sr., killed three panthers in one boys to nw»ns« u.? °^d pioneer was very fond of hunting. He required his the ears was th sbooJ'bl^ daily ; when their record was poor, a general boxing of and difficult, 6 uf8-11*' Ammunition, though in active demand, was expensive every f 0Dtain* obviate all embarrassment, it became customary for sable artinlo his own powder.

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In the county-history sources

31,769 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Elizabeth Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Elizabeth Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 212 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 212 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grayson between 1835 and 1975: 184 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.	1835	Frank
Polyporus radicatus Schwein.	1909	Thomas	Troy
Botryodiplodia (Sacc.) Sacc.	1921	L.M. Fenner	Mill Creek Farm
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. arbuscula (Berk. & Broome) Nann.-Bremek., 1975	1897	Thaxter, R.	USA, Florida, Cocoanut Grove
Mermis Dujardin, 1842	1897	F. Johnston	New Carlisle
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio

All 212 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grayson: 5 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Tipp Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tipp Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tipp City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tipp Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Troy Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Troy Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vandalia Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Miami 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
Babbtown (historical)	1.7 miles	14
Cowlesville	2.4 miles	14
Tipp City	2.9 miles	14
Cloverdale	3.6 miles	17
Staunton	3.7 miles	17
Casstown	4.0 miles	17
Southview Estates	4.2 miles	17
Premwood	4.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062792. 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.