Grover, Colorado
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Grover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80729. The Survey maps it on the Grover South quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,075 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrover grew from 137 to 157 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 137 | |
| 2020 | 157 | +20 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Grover South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Eaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Grover South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grover in 2020, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2020 | Natural | 1,500 acres | Windsor-Severance Fire Protection District | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Grover: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grover | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Grover Test Site | Uranium | Past Producer | 1970, 1977, 1978 | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
42 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover in 42 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 6 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Grover | - | The report from was received through mPING. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | The station CW5040 near Briggsdale reported the wind gusts. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | Mesonet station CW5040 Briggsdale. |
| July 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Grover | - | A landspout touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Grover | - | A tornado touched down briefly. Some power lines were damaged in the vicinity of the touchdown. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | Strong straight-line winds flattened a corn crop. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Grover | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field; no damage was observed. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Grover | - | A tornado touched down briefly. No damage was observed. |
| June 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Grover | - | A tornado touched down a ripped a small tree from the ground and threw it a distance of 20 feet. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Grover | - | A small tornado touched down but did no damage. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | Strong thunderstorm winds to 64 mph (53 kts) and large hail did an undetermined amount of damage to cropland in the area. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Grover | - | Large hail and heavy rain damaged beet, corn and wheat crops throughout Weld County during the afternoon and into the evening hours. Spotters 21 and 23 miles north of New Raymer reported hail up to 3 inches deep had blanketed the highways and ditches. Later in the evening, and into the early morning hours of the 25th, the town of Grover received up to 5 inches of rainfall as a series of thunderstorms trained over the area. Several roads east of the town were flooded and impassable. No estimates of the damage were available. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Grover | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hereford | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Keota | 14.1 miles | 13 | |
| Briggsdale | 17.2 miles | 14 | |
| Buckingham | 21.7 miles | 7 | |
| Fosston | 22.1 miles | 12 | |
| Purcell | 25.6 miles | 16 | |
| Cornish | 26.0 miles | 14 | |
| Raymer | 27.2 miles | 7 |
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 Grover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2126044 | The 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 201968. 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.








