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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.

Grover within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

Grover 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.

YearPeople Change
2010137
2020157+20 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2020

Regional 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
Natural1

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
11 August 2020Natural1,500 acresWindsor-Severance Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
GroverUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Grover Test SiteUraniumPast Producer1970, 1977, 1978
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

42 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025HailGrover-The report from was received through mPING.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGrover-The station CW5040 near Briggsdale reported the wind gusts.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGrover-Mesonet station CW5040 Briggsdale.
July 2022Tornado (EFU)Grover-A landspout touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was reported.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Grover-A tornado touched down briefly. Some power lines were damaged in the vicinity of the touchdown.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGrover-Strong straight-line winds flattened a corn crop.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Grover-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field; no damage was observed.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Grover-A tornado touched down briefly. No damage was observed.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Grover-A tornado touched down a ripped a small tree from the ground and threw it a distance of 20 feet.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Grover-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGrover-Strong thunderstorm winds to 64 mph (53 kts) and large hail did an undetermined amount of damage to cropland in the area.
May 1997Flash FloodGrover-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 2025HailGrover-no account filed
July 2025HailGrover-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
July 2021HailGrover-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
August 2020HailGrover-no account filed
August 2018HailGrover-no account filed
July 2016HailGrover-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
June 2012HailGrover-no account filed
June 2010HailGrover-no account filed
June 2009HailGrover-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
May 2006HailGrover-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
July 2005HailGrover-no account filed
June 2002HailGrover-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
May 1998HailGrover-no account filed
July 1998HailGrover-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed
August 1997HailGrover-no account filed
August 1997HailGrover-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Hereford8.3 miles12
Keota14.1 miles13
Briggsdale17.2 miles14
Buckingham21.7 miles7
Fosston22.1 miles12
Purcell25.6 miles16
Cornish26.0 miles14
Raymer27.2 miles7

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 GroverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2126044The 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.