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.
Population over time
2 figuresGranville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 312 | |
| 2020 | 310 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Granville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Storm Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2020Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sioux-Vandeweerd Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Granville | - | Hail lasted for five minutes. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Granville | - | Lots of crop damage from half dollar to silver dollar size hail. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | 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 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Granville | - | A brief tornado, a landspout, caused no reported damage. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Granville | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Granville | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of numerous roads and basements, and of the Floyd River and nearby low areas. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Granville | - | Large hail, driven by strong winds, damaged crops. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Granville | - | Large hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospers | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Alton | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Newkirk | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Orange City | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Carnes | 10.5 miles | 10 | |
| Middleburg | 13.6 miles | 7 | |
| Boyden | 15.8 miles | 7 | |
| Maurice | 16.3 miles | 10 |
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 Granville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932478 | The 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.




