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Grandview, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Capital Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62702. The Survey maps it on the Springfield East quadrangle. 1,405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Grandview within Sangamon County

Population over time

2 figures

Grandview fell from 1,441 to 1,405 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
20101,441
20201,405-36 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

In the county-history sources

9,795 words on this township

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Capital Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Capital Township - 9,795 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Grandview between 2010 and 2014, burning about 93 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 burning6
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
24 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000096
23 March 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000093
21 March 2014Debris and open burning12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000087
21 March 2011Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1193
15 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000082
14 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10334
14 October 2010Debris and open burning50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10333

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sangamon County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grandview: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. ClayClayProspect
Springfield Clay Prod.Co.PitclayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Airport Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clear Lake DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sangamon County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Springfield City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Springfield Pit Solomon ServiceSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon County

Storms near this place

21 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandview in 21 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 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
May 2010Flash FloodGrandview$9,750,000A nearly stationary thunderstorm produced around 4.50 inches of rain in 90 minutes over the city of Springfield just before the evening rush hour. The downtown suffered major impacts with extensive flooding of streets and up to 7 feet of water under viaducts. Most streets were impassable, which resulted in more than 200 stranded vehicles. Nearly 650 homes and businesses sustained flood damage. Several people had to be rescued from the their flooded autos, but there were no injuries or fatalities.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGrandview$10,000A few trees were blown down across Peoria Road in Springfield.
August 2023Flash FloodGrandview-Several roads on the north and west side of Springfield were closed due to high water. A few vehicles stalled out in the water.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Power lines were blown down near Lanphier High School and in the Northgate Subdivision.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Multiple 4-inch diameter tree limbs were broken off.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Tree limbs were blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A 6-inch diameter tree limb was snapped.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A tree was blown onto a roadway.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A power pole was snapped and tents were damaged at the Illinois State Fair.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandview-A partially rotten 36-inch diameter tree was blown over and knocked down power lines.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandview-An 18-inch diameter tree was blown over.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Several large tree branches were blown down on Reservoir Street in Grandview.
April 2025HailGrandview-no account filed
April 2025HailGrandview-no account filed
June 2024HailGrandview-no account filed
June 2021HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2020HailGrandview-no account filed
June 2019HailGrandview-no account filed
March 2012HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2011HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2011HailGrandview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sangamon 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
Starne0.9 miles20
Arlington Heights0.9 miles20
Ridgely1.3 miles19
East Springfield1.3 miles19
Springfield1.7 miles19
Devereux Heights2.3 miles20
Streadle2.6 miles20
Clear Lake2.7 miles20

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 Q941019The 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 409275. 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.