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Granville

City · Licking County · 5,946 residents · 1.5% municipal income tax

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  1. Women's Cross Country vs NCAC Championship - Hosted by Oberlin College

    Starts 11 a.m. · From Denison University

  2. Field Hockey at DePauw University

    Starts noon · From Denison University

  3. Women's Soccer vs Ohio Wesleyan University

    Starts noon · From Denison University

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History from Granville

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How Granville began

Granville sits in a valley filled with ancient mounds and earthworks, including the Fort Ancient effigy known as the Alligator Mound on a ridge above the town, centuries before the first Euro-Americans camped on Ramp Creek in November 1800. Welsh Hills settlers, led by Deacon Theophilus Rees, began arriving from 1802-1803, several years ahead of the town's real founding: in the fall of 1805, about 150 colonists by the village's own count (other accounts say more than 200), organized the year before in Granville, Massachusetts, and Granby, Connecticut, as the Licking Land Company arrived together and laid out a New England-style village around a central square. The transplanted colony became a temperance and abolitionist stronghold that stayed legally dry from 1874 to 1974, and its Baptist Granville Literary and Theological Institute, organized in 1831, grew by 1856 into Denison University. Granville remains an incorporated village, not a city, of roughly 6,000 people on three hills -- College Hill, Sugarloaf and Mount Parnassus -- above the same Raccoon Creek valley the mound builders once shaped.

Settled 1800-1803 (John Jones, the Fords and Benoni Benjamin camp on Ramp Creek, November 1800; Welsh Hills settlement begins in earnest, spring 1803), platted 1805 (the Granville colony's arriving settlers lay out a 117-acre town plat on taking possession of the land that fall), incorporated not confirmed by sources consulted; secondary sources disagree between 1831 and 1832 for the village's original charter, by the Licking Land Company (the 'Granville colony'), organized in East Granville, Massachusetts, April 23, 1804.

Where the name comes from

Granville and Granville Township take their name directly from Granville, Massachusetts, hometown of most of the colonists who organized the Licking Land Company there in 1804 and emigrated together in 1805; a number of subscribers also came from the neighboring town of Granby, Connecticut.

Before the town

The Raccoon Creek valley around Granville holds, in the words of the 1881 county history, 'probably the most interesting territory in the State, or even in the United States, for the antiquarian': mounds and earthworks 'almost be counted by the hundred' once stood along its bottoms and bluffs, though many had already been plowed away by 1881. The most striking survivor is the Alligator Mound, a 200-foot effigy on a hilltop about six miles west of Newark, built by the Fort Ancient culture around AD 950 according to 1999 radiocarbon dating by archaeologists Brad Lepper and Tod Frolking; Lepper interprets it as representing an underwater panther, a powerful figure in Native tradition, rather than a true alligator, and it is one of only two surviving effigy mounds in Ohio, alongside the Great Serpent Mound. Nearby stood the 'Crescent' mound, a large circular enclosure of 75 to 80 acres (long since plowed under), and, on the McCune farm, a roughly 50-acre hilltop fortification with an outer ditch and embankment, two smaller interior circular redoubts, and lookout mounds -- described in 1881 as 'a work of considerable magnitude.' A conical mound that once stood in Main Street in the village itself was graded away to build the street. The valley also carried an Indian trail running from Newark up the Raccoon valley to a Wyandot village near present Johnstown -- almost certainly Raccoon Town, bought out by settlers in 1807 -- though the 1881 history states plainly that 'no Indian history has been preserved in connection with this township' beyond its use as hunting ground, and that no permanent Native camp is known to have existed within the township in the historic period.

Nations recorded here: Fort Ancient culture, Wyandot.

  • Alligator Mound (mound) — hilltop about six miles west of Newark, near Granville, Fort Ancient culture, c. AD 950 (radiocarbon dated 1999) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • McCune farm / "Fort Hill" earthwork (earthwork) — lots five and six of the Granville purchase, extending into the Welsh Hills purchase, unspecified (Mound Builder era) (archive.org)
  • The Crescent and adjoining circular enclosure (earthwork) — bottom land near the McCune farm earthwork, Granville Township, unspecified (Mound Builder era) (archive.org)
  • Wyandot village near Johnstown (probably Raccoon Town) (village) — reached from Newark by a trail up the Raccoon Creek valley through Granville Township, until settlers purchased the site in 1807 (en.wikipedia.org)

Timeline

  1. — The Fort Ancient culture builds the Alligator Mound, a 200-foot effigy, on a hilltop near the future site of Granville.
  2. — In late November, John Jones, Phineas and Frederick Ford, and Benoni Benjamin camp on Ramp Creek, the first recorded Euro-American presence at the site of Granville.
  3. — Mrs. Jones gives birth to the first white child born in the township on October 1 and dies of puerperal fever three weeks later, the township's first recorded white death; she is buried on a small hill in Newark.
  4. — Welsh Hills settlement begins in earnest as David Thomas and David Lewis, followed soon by Deacon Theophilus Rees and 'Jimmy' Johnson, move onto the hills north of the valley.
  5. — On April 23, thirty-five subscribers, mostly from Granville, Massachusetts, and Granby, Connecticut, sign articles of association in East Granville forming the Licking Land Company to buy land in Ohio.
  6. — In November and December, about 150 colonists of the Licking Land Company, by the village's own count (other accounts say more than 200), arrive from Massachusetts and Connecticut in ox-drawn wagons and lay out a New England-style village of 117 acres around a central square.
  7. — Granville Township is organized from the west half of Licking Township, Fairfield County.
  8. — The Granville Literary and Theological Institute is organized on December 13 on a 135-acre manual-labor farm southwest of the village; it is incorporated the following February.
  9. — An abolitionist convention in Granville is disrupted when anti-abolitionist townspeople retaliate with stones and eggs, part of a wider pattern of violent confrontation over the issue in the village.
  10. — The institute is renamed Granville College.
  11. — William S. Denison of Adamsville gives $10,000 toward the college's endowment, and in his honor the school is renamed Denison University.
  12. — Granville enacts local prohibition, remaining legally dry for a century.
  13. — The Alligator Mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5.
  14. — Granville repeals local prohibition after one hundred years.

Stories

A Colony Chosen by Committee

Granville was not settled by chance but planned, almost corporately, from the start. On April 23, 1804, thirty-five people meeting in East Granville, Massachusetts signed articles of association forming the Licking Land Company, pledging themselves and their heirs to buy land in Ohio; by August, forty-four more had joined, and that September the group appointed a twelve-man board of trustees to hold deeds in trust for the whole company. Jesse Munson and James Smith each subscribed for 1,000 to 1,500 acres, and the average subscription ran to about 200 acres. The company sent agents west in May 1804 to scout land, and in the fall of 1805 the colony -- roughly 150 people in ox-drawn wagons, by the village's own history -- arrived together on the site the agents had chosen, built temporary shelters on a public square they had already planned, and by that first winter, one colonist later wrote, the place had 'assumed the metropolitan appearance of a small Indian village.'

The Alligator on the Hill

On a hilltop about six miles west of Newark, near Granville, Fort Ancient people shaped an effigy mound 200 feet long, its body twenty feet wide and its four limbs each twenty-five feet in length. Nineteenth-century surveyors Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis documented it for the Smithsonian in 1848, and by then it was already being called the Alligator Mound for its unmistakable reptilian shape, even though no alligator has lived wild in Ohio. In 1999, archaeologists Brad Lepper and Tod Frolking used radiocarbon dating on charcoal from the site to place its construction around AD 950; Lepper has argued the effigy more likely represents an underwater panther, a fearsome water spirit in Native tradition, and that early observers' talk of a giant reptile may have been a garbled echo of that older story. Listed on the National Register in 1971, it survives today as one of only two effigy mounds left anywhere in Ohio, the other being the far larger Serpent Mound in Adams County.

The Welsh Who Came First

By the time the Massachusetts colonists reached Granville in the fall of 1805, they were not the first Euro-Americans on the ground. Welsh families had begun settling the hills north of the valley as early as 1802 and 1803, led by Deacon Theophilus Rees, who had bought land in the township the year before and sent an advance party to look it over. David Thomas and David Lewis were the first to stay as permanent settlers, soon joined by Rees himself and by 'Jimmy' Johnson; more Welsh families, some by way of western Virginia, followed in 1803 and 1804. These 'Welsh Hills' settlers organized their own Baptist church and, for a generation, held services in the Welsh language -- a distinct community that predated the famous Massachusetts colony and gave the hills north of Granville a name they still carry.

A Hundred Years Dry

The New England colonists who founded Granville brought their religion and their politics with them, and both hardened over the decades that followed: the village became a center of the temperance movement and, later, of abolitionist sentiment strong enough to draw stone-throwing mobs to an 1836 anti-slavery convention. That temperance strain eventually became law. In 1874, Granville enacted local prohibition of alcohol sales, nearly half a century before the Eighteenth Amendment made the whole country dry. When national Prohibition ended in 1933, Granville kept its own ban in place regardless, and the village did not vote to allow alcohol sales again until 1974 -- a hundred years, almost to the year, after it first went dry.

Photographs

Engraving of the 'so-called Alligator Mound,' published in The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Engraving of the 'so-called Alligator Mound,' published in The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal (1891)
Photo: Rev. Stephen D. Peet, editor, American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The Alligator Effigy Mound, viewed from the west
The Alligator Effigy Mound, viewed from the west (2011)
Photo: Nyttend, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The Buxton Inn, Granville, built 1812
The Buxton Inn, Granville, built 1812 (2015)
Photo: Ohio Redevelopment Projects - ODSA, via Wikimedia Commons/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: archive.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · granville.oh.us · granvillehistory.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org

Historic places

10 places in Granville on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. Avery-Hunter HouseBuilding · Granville · listed 1979
    Address
    221 E. Broadway
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1979
    NRIS reference number
    79001877
    Coordinates
    40.06754, -82.51759

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  2. Bancroft, A. A., HouseBuilding · Granville · listed 1980
    Address
    N. Pearl St. and Washington Dr.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1980
    NRIS reference number
    80003135
    Coordinates
    40.07429, -82.51833

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  3. Buxton InnBuilding · Granville · listed 1972
    Address
    313 E. Broadway
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1972
    NRIS reference number
    72001029
    Coordinates
    40.06747, -82.51607

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  4. Carpenter, Wallace W., HouseBuilding · Granville · listed 1980
    Address
    323 Summit Dr.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1980
    NRIS reference number
    80003136
    Coordinates
    40.06991, -82.51577

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  5. Colony Burying Ground, OldHistoric district · Granville · listed 2005
    Address
    250 S. Main St
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Historic district
    Listed on the National Register
    2005
    NRIS reference number
    05000577
    Coordinates
    40.06530, -82.51980

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  6. Dustin CabinBuilding · Granville · listed 1980
    Address
    597 N. Pearl St.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1980
    NRIS reference number
    80003137
    Coordinates
    40.07500, -82.51882

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  7. Rogers HouseBuilding · Granville · listed 1980
    Address
    304 N. Pearl St.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1980
    NRIS reference number
    80003139
    Coordinates
    40.07026, -82.51625

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  8. Rose, Capt. Levi, HouseBuilding · Granville · listed 1980
    Address
    631 N. Pearl St.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1980
    NRIS reference number
    80003140
    Coordinates
    40.06633, -82.52062

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  9. St. Luke's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · Granville · listed 1976
    Address
    111 E. Broadway St.
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1976
    NRIS reference number
    76001465
    Coordinates
    40.06761, -82.51947

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  10. Stanbery, Edwin, OfficeBuilding · Granville · listed 1978
    Address
    1 mi. (1.6 km) E of Granville
    Where
    Granville, Licking County · ZIP 43023
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1978
    NRIS reference number
    78002100
    Coordinates
    40.06748, -82.50856

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Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file. The listing year is shown where NPS's certification date agrees with the listing's reference number. Listing recognizes significance; it does not restrict a private owner.

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Water

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Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Granville's boundary: 1 fire or EMS station, 1 college, 1 power plant, 3 public schools, 1 private school, 1 library, 5 museums, 2 police stations, 6 public charging sites and 1 Superfund site. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Fire and EMS stations (1)

  1. Granville Township Fire DepartmentGranville
    Address
    133 North Prospect Street, Granville, OH 43023
    Coordinates
    40.06871, -82.51861

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Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.

Colleges (1)

  1. Denison UniversityPrivate nonprofit college · Granville
    What it is
    Private nonprofit college
    City
    Granville
    Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
    2,518
    Tuition and fees, in state
    $64,000
    Graduation rate
    80% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 617)
    IPEDS unit ID
    202523

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Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 2023-24 enrollment and tuition, graduation rates for the 2017 (four-year) and 2020 (two-year) entering classes.

Power plants (1)

  1. Denison Solar ArraySolar · 2 MW
    Capacity
    2 MW
    Main source
    Solar
    Technology
    Solar Photovoltaic
    Operator
    AEP Onsite Partners, LLC
    Sector
    IPP Non-CHP
    Where
    Granville, Licking County
    Generating units
    1
    Built
    2017
    EIA plant code
    61637

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Source: EIA-860 power plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025), with plant codes, units and years from EIA-860 2025.

Public schools (3)

  1. Granville Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Granville
    Address
    310 N Granger St, Granville, OH 43023
    School district
    Granville Ex Vill School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    685
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    40
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    93.5%
    Ohio building IRN
    014241
    NCES school ID
    390453902197

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  2. Granville High School5 of 5 stars · Granville
    Address
    248 New Burg St, Granville, OH 43023
    School district
    Granville Ex Vill School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    812
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    39.64
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    97.8%
    Four-year graduation rate
    99.5%
    Ohio building IRN
    014258
    NCES school ID
    390453902198

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  3. Granville Middle School5 of 5 stars · Granville
    Address
    210 New Burg St, Granville, OH 43023
    School district
    Granville Ex Vill School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    434
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    24.83
    Report card, 2025-26
    5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    95.1%
    Ohio building IRN
    037804
    NCES school ID
    390453902199

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Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2024-25 and Common Core of Data 2023-24 (type, students, teachers); Ohio School Report Cards 2025-26 (Department of Education and Workforce), matched by name within the district.

Private schools (1)

  1. Welsh Hills SchoolPrivate, nonsectarian · Granville
    Address
    2610 Newark Granville Rd, Granville, OH 43023
    Kind
    nonsectarian
    Students, 2023-24
    47
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    10.1
    Students per teacher
    4.65347
    Phone
    (740) 522-2020
    NCES private school ID
    01905701

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Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.

Public libraries (1)

  1. Granville Public LibraryCentral library · Granville
    Address
    217 E. Broadway, Granville, OH 43023
    What it is
    Central library
    Library system
    Granville Public Library
    Open
    3,432 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    26,400 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    100,880
    System's loans, FY2024
    260,454
    People the system serves
    14,524
    Phone
    (740) 587-0196

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Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 (outlets and their systems). Any Ohio resident can get a free card at any Ohio public library.

Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (5)

  1. Avery-Downer HouseHistorical society · Granville
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Granville
    Coordinates
    40.06649, -82.53058

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    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

  2. Denison University GalleryArt museum · Granville
    What it is
    Art museum
    City
    Granville
    Coordinates
    40.06649, -82.53058

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  3. Granville Life-Style MuseumMuseum · Granville
    What it is
    Museum
    City
    Granville
    Coordinates
    40.06705, -82.52027

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  4. Granville Ohio Historical SocietyHistorical society · Granville
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Granville
    Coordinates
    40.06789, -82.52011

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  5. Robbins Hunter Museum Restoration And Preservation CorporationHistory museum · Granville
    What it is
    History museum
    City
    Granville
    Coordinates
    40.06649, -82.53058

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    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.

Police stations (2)

  1. Denison University Police DepartmentGranville
    Address
    250 Ridge Road, Granville, OH 43023
    Coordinates
    40.07174, -82.52441

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  2. Granville Police DepartmentGranville
    Address
    141 Broadway East, Granville, OH 43023
    Coordinates
    40.06752, -82.51870

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Source: USGS National Map structures, police stations, corrected and completed by hand (September 2026). The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction, not by distance.

Public EV charging (6)

  1. DENISON UNIV CHAPEL LOT2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    Chapel Dr, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  2. DENISON UNIV EISNER CENTER2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    100 N Mulberry St, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  3. DENISON UNIV GRANVILLE INN2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    116 N Pearl St, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  4. DENISON UNIV MITCHELL CENTER2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    250 Livingston Dr, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  5. DENISON UNIV PARKING GARAGE2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    200 ridge rd, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  6. First Presbyterian Church of Granville2 Level 2 · Granville
    Address
    110 W Broadway, Granville, OH 43023
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    LOOP
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Price
    $1 activation fee; $0.15 per kWh
    Phone
    888-385-6671

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Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list (May 2026), public and open stations, the posts at one address counted as one site.

Superfund sites (1)

  1. Granville Solvents IncSuperfund program · Granville
    Address
    Palmer Ln Po Box 300, Granville, OH 43023
    County
    Licking County
    Status
    Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
    EPA program ID
    OHD004495412
    EPA registry ID
    110071101855

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Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS) and National Priorities List sites. Many program sites were assessed and needed no cleanup.

Its ZIP codes

Each ZIP code that touches Granville, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

ZIPShareWaterRadon Home valueSchoolsFlood
43023 Granville 41% Mostly private wells 10.0 pCi/L average radon Median year built 1985 Granville Exempted Village · 5 stars overall 1.1% of residents in the 1% floodplain

Local government

Who holds office in Granville, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Money issues on the ballot since 2024: 1 of 1 passed; of those asking for new or higher taxes, 1 of 1.

Ballot issues

DateIssueForAgainstResult
2024-11-05 Issue: Village of Granville - Proposed Charter Amendment - Commission Members 2,187457Passed (82.72% for)
2024-11-05 Issue: Village of Granville - Proposed Charter Amendment - Zoning 2,170455Passed (82.67% for)
2024-11-05 Issue: Village of Granville - Property Tax - Renewal & Increase - 0.25 Mills, 5 Yrs, Library (0.25 mills, renewal increase) 5,2683,125Passed (62.77% for)
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article II, Section 2.05 1,218178Passed (87.25% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article II, Section 2.08 1,042310Passed (77.07% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article II, Section 2.09 1,059295Passed (78.21% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article II, Section 2.12 1,147176Passed (86.7% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article II, Section 2.13 798536Passed (59.82% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article IV, Section 4.02 607793Failed (43.36% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article V, Section 5.05 968327Passed (74.75% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VI, Section 6.02 984358Passed (73.32% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VI, Section 6.03 769576Passed (57.17% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VI, Section 6.06 1,000244Passed (80.39% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VII, Section 7.01 890345Passed (72.06% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VIII, Section 8.01 1,167167Passed (87.48% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article VIII, Section 8.02 1,179158Passed (88.18% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article X, Section 10.02 816417Passed (66.18% for), unofficial
2021-11-02 Issue: Village of Granville - Charter Amendment - Article X, Section 10.11 1,072202Passed (84.14% for), unofficial

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2021-11-02 Member of Council (unofficial count) W. Brian Goss 496, 13.22%; Melissa K. Hartfield 1,043, 27.79%; Kim L. Keethler Ball 698, 18.6%; Matt McGowan 696, 18.55%; Aaron Olbur 820, 21.85%

Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.

Auditor of State record

The county

Licking County: 17 ZIP codes, 38 cities, villages and townships, 160,939 people.

Nearby places

Granville Township, Licking County Union Township, Licking County Harrison Township, Licking County Mckean Township, Licking County

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on Granville, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days
1.17 in
2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
rain so far in 2026
48.7 in
13.4 in above normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
16.9 in
a normal year brings 18.8 in
a normal year
41.5 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 1.17 — 29
September 2026 6.32 — 30
August 2026 11.67 — 31
July 2026 3.29 — 31
June 2026 5.11 — 30
May 2026 7.39 — 31
April 2026 3.27 — 30
March 2026 6.45 1.2 31
February 2026 2.37 2.9 28
January 2026 1.67 12.8 31
December 2025 2.33 10.3 31
November 2025 2.52 0.9 30
On the record, 1893–2026
Wettest year1990 — 55.9 in
Driest year1963 — 25.8 in
Snowiest year1910 — 62.0 in
Wettest day on record14 September 1979 — 4.44 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day21 December 1960 — 12.01 in
Deepest snow on the ground28 January 1918 — 19.82 in

Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside Granville, so every figure here is worked out from the gauges around it - the nearest ones weighted most. Treat them as close estimates rather than readings.

48,823 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-29. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.

Environmental permits and filings

What Ohio EPA has on file for Granville: permits, inspections, violations, cleanups and the state loans behind sewer and water work. Every line links to the agency's own document.

facilities and sites on file
52
those placed on the map inside Granville
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Wastewater and stormwater discharge13
Sewer and water-line construction9
Public drinking water6
State water loans5
Contaminated-site cleanup4
Hazardous waste4
State sewer loans3
Air pollution2
Source-water protection2
Composting1
Site assessment1
Underground injection wells1
1 smaller programs
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
PCN COORDINATION RACCOON CREEK BANK STABILIZATION Wetland and stream fill permit
LAKE HUDSON PWS Source-water protection report
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water report
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water plan
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water plan
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE MILLING CO Air pollution report
DENISON UNIVERSITY Composting inspection
GRANVILLE TENNIS CLUB PWS Public drinking water report
LAKE HUDSON PWS Public drinking water report
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INC Contaminated-site cleanup cleanup response
GRANVILLE, VILLAGE OF PWS Public drinking water plan

Source: Ohio EPA eDocument portal (edocpub.epa.ohio.gov), indexed 2026-10-14. Facilities are placed on the map from Ohio EPA's own map layers, EPA's Facility Registry, coordinates written in the filings, or a geocoded street address. A permit filed under a private person's name (most are household septic systems) is counted but never named, placed or linked; licenses for individual workers and open-burning notices are left out entirely.

Quick answers

What county is Granville, Ohio in?

Granville is a city in Licking County, Ohio, with 5,946 residents.

When was Granville, Ohio founded?

Granville was settled 1800-1803 (John Jones, the Fords and Benoni Benjamin camp on Ramp Creek, November 1800; Welsh Hills settlement begins in earnest, spring 1803); laid out 1805 (the Granville colony's arriving settlers lay out a 117-acre town plat on taking possession of the land that fall); incorporated not confirmed by sources consulted; secondary sources disagree between 1831 and 1832 for the village's original charter. Founders on record: the Licking Land Company (the 'Granville colony'), organized in East Granville, Massachusetts, April 23, 1804. Source

How did Granville, Ohio get its name?

Granville and Granville Township take their name directly from Granville, Massachusetts, hometown of most of the colonists who organized the Licking Land Company there in 1804 and emigrated together in 1805; a number of subscribers also came from the neighboring town of Granby, Connecticut. Source

What ZIP code is Granville, Ohio?

Most of Granville is in ZIP code 43023.

Where does Granville, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Granville (Granville, Village Of): Mostly private wells.

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