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Granville, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51022. The Survey maps it on the Granville East quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.

Granville within Sioux County

Population over time

2 figures

Granville fell from 312 to 310 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
2010312
2020310-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Granville in 2020, burning about 11 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

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
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Sioux County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Granville: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Old County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sioux-Vandeweerd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sioux County

Storms near this place

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 15 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Granville-A tornado developed around 3 miles southwest of Granville just east of Lily Avenue and north of 490th Street. The tornado moved generally north-northeast and near the end of the path, the tornado peeled pack the roof panels of an old outbuilding on a farmstead. The tornado lifted before crossing 480th Street. The maximum estimated wind speed was 70 mph and the average path width was 25 yards.
August 2018HailGranville-Hail lasted for five minutes.
August 2018HailGranville-Lots of crop damage from half dollar to silver dollar size hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGranville-Dime size hail along with the wind. Severe tree branches downed throughout the town. Also reported 2.25 inches of rain in a 20 to 30 minute period.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Granville-A brief tornado, a landspout, caused no reported damage.
May 2013Flash FloodGranville-Heavy rainfall of about 4 inches in a short time caused significant street flooding, and flooding of basements or lower levels of a few houses.
July 2012HailGranville-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2012HailGranville-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2012HailGranville-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2010Flash FloodGranville-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of numerous roads and basements, and of the Floyd River and nearby low areas.
July 2004HailGranville-Large hail, driven by strong winds, damaged crops. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGranville-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter branches blown down.
August 2002HailGranville-Large hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2018HailGranville-no account filed
June 2016HailGranville-no account filed
July 2012HailGranville-no account filed
July 2012HailGranville-no account filed
June 2008HailGranville-no account filed
July 2004HailGranville-no account filed
June 2001HailGranville-no account filed
August 2000HailGranville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sioux 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
Hospers6.2 miles7
Alton7.3 miles10
Newkirk8.0 miles7
Orange City9.9 miles7
Carnes10.5 miles10
Middleburg13.6 miles7
Boyden15.8 miles7
Maurice16.3 miles10

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 GranvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932478The 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 457076. 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.