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Garden Grove, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Garden Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50103. It stands on Mormon Pool. The Survey maps it on the Garden Grove quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Garden Grove within Decatur County

On record in Garden Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Garden Grove fell from 211 to 174 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
2010211
2020174-37 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Garden Grove between 2005 and 2012, burning about 840 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
22 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2005Debris and open burning800 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden Grove in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning, 2 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
April 2001LightningGarden Grove$50,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$40,000Grain bin destroyed.
July 2009Flash FloodGarden Grove$25,000Rural roads were under 5 to 6 feet of water.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$25,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$10,000no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodGarden Grove$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailGarden Grove$5,000One to one and one half inches of dime size hail covered the ground with some hail stones the size of ping pong balls.
March 2005LightningGarden Grove$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$3,000no account filed
September 2000HailGarden Grove$3,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$2,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$1,000Heavy rain blew horizontally under a 15 foot eave and into the spotters house.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailGarden Grove-Emergency manager relayed image of quarter sized hail just north of Garden Grove. Time estimated by radar.
March 2022Tornado (EFU)Garden Grove-Video provided by a storm chaser indicated a satellite tornado to the larger tornado which travelled through Decatur, Wayne and Lucas counties. This was the first satellite tornado with another occurring later with the larger tornado. This tornado was also observed in high resolution satellite ground imagery. The tornado impacted no damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGarden Grove-Public reported that a large section of mature sweet corn was completely flattened. Time estimated from radar.
July 2015Heavy RainGarden Grove-Public reported a storm total heavy rainfall of 4.60 inches.
May 2009HailGarden Grove-no account filed
August 2004HailGarden Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Le Roy3.6 miles7
High Point4.6 miles7
Weldon8.3 miles7
Woodland9.1 miles7
Leon9.6 miles7
Van Wert10.3 miles7
Kingston12.1 miles7
Brucewell12.6 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 Garden GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932573The 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 456823. 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.

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.