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Grannis, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71944. The Survey maps it on the Gillham quadrangle. 496 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Grannis within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Grannis fell from 554 to 496 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010554
2020496-58 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 printed 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.

Fires near this place

92 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Grannis between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 49 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grannis: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Little MissouriSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grannis in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGrannis$5,000Trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGrannis-A chicken house near Grannis sustained significant wind damage.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Chicken coops were damaged due to strong thunderstorm winds.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Trees were blown down in the town of Grannis.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Several trees were down along Highway 71.
May 2016HailGrannis-Information was relayed by Polk County EM.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Tree was blown down on US Highway 71 north of Grannis.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Trees downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Trees down.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindGrannis-Thunderstorm winds blew a small out-building into an automobile.
January 2010HailGrannis-no account filed
April 2008HailGrannis-no account filed
June 2005HailGrannis-no account filed
April 2001HailGrannis-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGrannis-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGrannis-no account filed
March 1999Tornado (F2)Grannis-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindGrannis-no account filed
February 1998HailGrannis-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGrannis-no account filed
June 1995HailGrannis-no account filed
June 1994HailGrannis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Holly Grove3.6 miles15
Wickes4.3 miles16
Bog Springs7.9 miles16
Hatton8.4 miles16
Roff (historical)9.0 miles16
Vandervoort9.9 miles16
Bethel Chapel10.5 miles16
Hartley12.4 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GrannisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79596The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77054. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.