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Grandview, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grandview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52752. The Survey maps it on the Letts quadrangle. 437 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Grandview within Louisa County

Population over time

2 figures

Grandview fell from 556 to 437 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
2010556
2020437-119 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

31 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Grandview between 2003 and 2019, burning about 495 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePort Louisa National Wildlife RefugeCAMPFIRE 1
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Louisa County

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandview in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 tornado. 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
June 2007Tornado (EF3)Grandview1 hurt, $1,000,000The tornado touched down on the southern edge of Grandview. It moved through the center of town intensifying in rural areas as it approached the county line. In Grandview, several homes sustained severe damage. North of Grandview, about 1.5 miles, a farm house was completely destroyed. Other homes and trees along the path sustained damage. The tornado crossed the Louisa-Muscatine county line just south of Fruitland, IA.|
April 2011FloodGrandview$250,000no account filed
April 2003HailGrandview$50,000no account filed
April 2003HailGrandview$20,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGrandview$5,000Barn damaged and trees downed.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Grandview$2,000A brief tornado touchdown resulted in tree and roof damage and a missing boat at a home near Grandview.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGrandview$200Several tree limbs were blown down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Part of a building was reported blown onto the roadway.
April 2020HailGrandview-Reported through social media.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A 4 to 5 foot diameter large tree was snapped off by thunderstorm winds.
May 2019FloodGrandview-The Mississippi River at New Boston Lock and Dam 17 began the month above its major flood stage of 18.5 feet. The river stage at the beginning of the month was 22.39 feet. The river would rise to a crest of 23.59 feet beginning on May 3rd. This crest is preliminary the 4th highest crest. The river fell below major flood stage around 1 AM on May 14th.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A trained spotter reported a few trees were down. The time was estimated by radar.
March 2017Tornado (EF2)Grandview-A tornado touched down west of Grandview Iowa, and broke off wooden power poles about 3 feet off the ground as well as uprooting a few trees and breaking tree limbs. A semi was blown into a ditch in the same area.
March 2016HailGrandview-This report was delayed. The hail was reported up to the size of tennis balls. Numerous cars sustained dents and windows were broken out at a generation station.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A storm survey team found a small area of scattered straight line wind damage to two farmsteads at this location. Large hardwood tree branch damage as well as minor damage to a farm outbuilding roof was surveyed.
June 2014Flash FloodGrandview-Law enforcement reported several streets closed due to water over the roads.
June 2014FloodGrandview-Heavy rains during the second half of June resulted in the Mississippi River at New Boston, IL and Keithsburg, IL going above their respective major flood stage levels on the afternoon and evening of June 28. They crested about 5.5 to 6 feet above their major flooding levels on July 5. They fell below their major flood stage levels on July 14.||New Boston rose above its major flood stage level of 18.5 feet on June 28 around 10 pm CDT. It crested around 24.52 feet around 2 am CDT July 5. It fell below the major flood stage level around 2 am CDT July 14.||Keithsburg rose above its major flood stage level of 17 feet on June 28 around 1 pm CDT. It crested around 22.63 feet around 645 pm CDT July 5. It fell below the major flood stage level around 230 pm CDT July 14.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A trained spotter reported numerous branches down in Grandview.
June 2013FloodGrandview-Heavy rains farther to the north during the last two weeks of June led to rises on the Mississippi River to above major flood stage at both New Boston and Keithsburg. Both New Boston and Keithsburg rose above their major flood stages of 18.5 feet and 17 feet respectively during the early morning hours of the 28th and remained there through the end of the month.
November 2013HailGrandview-Hail was reported to be a bit larger than a quarter.
September 2012HailGrandview-Nickel sized hail fell in Grandview, IA at 515 am CDT September 7.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down a 12 foot fruit tree about 9 miles east southeast of Columbus Junction, IA.
September 2012HailGrandview-Nickel sized hail fell covering the ground in Grandview, IA at 328 am CDT September 7.
April 2011HailGrandview-Quarter sized hail fell in Grandview, IA at 831 pm CDT April 3.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down a 3 foot diameter tree in Grandview, IA at 336 pm CDT July 23. A power outage was also observed in town.
May 2008FloodGrandview-The Mississippi River at New Boston was over its major flood stage level from 12:00 am May 1 until 1:00 pm May 7.||The Mississippi River at Keithsburg was over its major flood stage level |from 12:00 am May 1 until 10:00 am May 8.
March 2026HailGrandview-no account filed
April 2020HailGrandview-no account filed
April 2020HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2017HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2017HailGrandview-no account filed
March 2016HailGrandview-no account filed
March 2016HailGrandview-no account filed
March 2007HailGrandview-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindGrandview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Louisa 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
Port Louisa3.9 miles11
Letts4.4 miles9
Bard (historical)5.8 miles7
Wapello6.5 miles11
Fredonia8.0 miles7
Columbus Junction9.1 miles7
Hillsboro (historical)9.3 miles7
Lafayette (historical)9.3 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 GrandviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998757The 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 457030. 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.