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Granby, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Granby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80446. It stands on Tenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granby quadrangle. 2,079 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,966 feet above sea level.

Granby within Grand County

Population over time

2 figures

Granby grew from 1,864 to 2,079 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
20101,864
20202,079+215 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Granby between 1993 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Junction Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
8 August 2016Natural222 acresGrand Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
30 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGrand Junction Fire Departmentnot named
10 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGrand Junction Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Granby: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Certified Reddi-Mix IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granby in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2006LightningGranby1 hurtA man was hit in the head by lightning while golfing at the Grand Elk Ranch and Golf Club golf course in Granby. His clothes were completely blown off by the blast and his body turned purple. His wife performed CPR immediately and was able to resuscitate him.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGranby$200,000Intense straightline winds from a severe thunderstorm knocked a 50-foot tree on to a roof. Fences were also toppled and shingles removed. Several loose objects were lifted and tossed.
August 2022Flash FloodGranby$10,000Highway 125 was closed overnight in both directions due to mudslide concerns betweek Trail Creek and Forest Road 112.
July 2022Flash FloodGranby$5,000Highway 125 was closed when a brief burst of rain caused a mudslide between Trail Creek and Forest Road 112.
July 2000Flash FloodGranby-Heavy rain, up to 3.5 inches in an hour, deluged the streets, drains, homes and businesses in Granby. In many places, water was gushing out of the storm drains as the drainage system could not handle the high volume of water. Some hillsides were washed out and many yards had surface soil stripped clean. Water up to 2 feet in depth covered some of the cities' streets. Several offices and businesses were also flooded. The Granby Library, in the basement of Granby Town Hall, was also flooded. Numerous books and computers were damaged forcing the closure of the library for a week.

Every storm recorded in Grand 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
Elkdale4.4 miles25
Tabernash8.2 miles26
Hot Sulphur Springs8.7 miles18
Fraser11.7 miles26
Parshall12.7 miles18
Grand Lake13.0 miles29
Maryvale13.3 miles26
Hideaway Park14.2 miles26

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 GranbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1001750The 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 178402. 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.