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Grant, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50847. The Survey maps it on the Grant quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Grant within Montgomery County

On record in Grant

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

Grant fell from 92 to 86 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
201092
202086-6 (-7%)

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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grant between 2006 and 2020, burning about 110 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5

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 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Grant: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Miller PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Grant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGrant$50,000no account filed
April 2024HailGrant-The office received a public report of quarter sized hail.
July 2024HailGrant-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.
July 2024Funnel CloudGrant-Emergency management reported a funnel cloud.
September 2022HailGrant-Emergency manager reported quarter to large-size hail.
June 2021HailGrant-Emergency manager reported hail ranging from the size of ping pongs to golf balls. A few larger than golf ball sized hail stones were also noted.
June 2019HailGrant-The public reported 1.25 inch hail in Grant.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGrant-Trees and power lines were blown down by damaging thunderstorm winds near Grant.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGrant-Thunderstorm winds estimated over 60 mph blew down several trees in Grant.
August 2015HailGrant-no account filed
August 2015HailGrant-no account filed
April 2012HailGrant-no account filed
May 2001HailGrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Morton Mills4.4 miles9
Biddick (historical)6.7 miles9
Wallin6.9 miles9
Sciola7.5 miles9
Tenville9.3 miles9
Elliott9.5 miles9
Frankfort (historical)11.0 miles9
Stennett11.7 miles9

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 GrantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932409The 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 457052. 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.