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Cridersville is a village in Duchouquet Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, and is part of the Wapakoneta micropolitan area.

The village was platted on April 17, 1856, when Ephraim and Polly Crider and their son Isaac filed the map of a new town named for their family, with just 24 lots along Main and High Streets.

The Criders platted their town along the proposed route of the Dayton and Michigan Railroad, and when the railroad was completed in 1858 the village began to grow.

The discovery of oil in 1885 made Cridersville prosper, and its business district developed along Main Street in the first block east of the railroad tracks.

In the 1890s the village built the Town Pond Reservoir to supply water for fighting fires, but on May 2, 1918, a wind-driven rubbish fire spread from across the street and burned much of the East Main Street business district.

Cridersville's first school was a one-room building put up in 1866 on East Main Street, replaced by larger schools in 1875 and again in 1907.

The village covers just 0.90 square miles and sits about halfway between the cities of Lima and Wapakoneta, with Interstate 75 running along its eastern edge.

The 2020 census counted 1,791 people in Cridersville, down slightly from 1,852 people in 766 households at the 2010 census.