Grayville, Illinois Location of Grayville inside Illinois Location of Grayville inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Grayville, Illinois Grayville is a town/city in Edwards and White counties in the U.S.
As of the 2010 Census, the city's populace was 1,666, reflecting a decline of 59 (-3.4%) from the 1,725 in 2000.
Grayville was established in about 1810 by the head of the Gray family, James Gray.
According to the 2010 census, Grayville has a total region of 2.173 square miles (5.63 km2), of which 2.13 square miles (5.52 km2) (or 98.02%) is territory and 0.043 square miles (0.11 km2) (or 1.98%) is water. In Grayville, Illinois Route 130 meets Illinois Route 1, and Route 1 meets Interstate 64.
Grayville was assembled on the Wabash River.
While it is no longer on any primary rail line, it was home to a large rail bridge athwart the Wabash into Indiana, but sections of that bridge collapsed in January 2005 due to a primary flood of the Wabash River.
In late 2005, an ethanol plant was proposed for the Grayville area, and the assembly of the plant would have encompassed stone the bridge and rail lines dominant to it on both the Indiana and Illinois sides of the river, but as of July 2009, neither the plant nor the bridge have been built. The biggest bridge to Indiana south of Lawrenceville, and the only Interstate link between Illinois and Indiana south of Terre Haute, the I-64 river crossing runs alongside to the collapsed rail bridge, about 1000 feet upstream.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,725 citizens , 754 homeholds, and 478 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.4% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 24.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $30,000, and the median income for a family was $36,944.
About 9.1% of families and 13.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 21.0% of those under age 18 and 13.5% of those age 65 or over.
Grayville had been at the northern end of a four-mile-long oxbow bend of the chief channel of the Wabash River.
"City Of Grayville | Grayville History".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Municipalities and communities of Edwards County, Illinois, United States Municipalities and communities of White County, Illinois, United States
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