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Ghost town · Holmes County, Ohio

Millersburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)
Millersburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Grade is a ghost town in Holmes County, Ohio. It is one of 5 former communities in Holmes County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Grade as a historical populated place on the Millersburg topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 40.5076° N, 81.8885° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMillersburg
Elevation1,160 ft
Nearest living townLake Buckhorn, OH
Distance to it2.7 miles
GNIS feature ID1053489
Coordinates40.50756, -81.88847

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Grade today, aerial view
Millersburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)

Left: Millersburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Grade is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lake Buckhorn, OH (population 593), about 2.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,160 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Grade?

Grade is in Holmes County, Ohio, at 40.5076, -81.8885.

How many ghost towns are in Holmes County?

Holmes County, Ohio has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.