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Grandview, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hammond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47615. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewisport quadrangle. 698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Grandview within Spencer County

Population over time

2 figures

Grandview fell from 749 to 698 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
2010749
2020698-51 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Grandview between 2001 and 2010, burning about 104 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 burning2
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
17 July 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2001Debris and open burning95 acresHoosier National ForestNEWTONVILLE
11 March 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grandview: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Rockport PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
American Olean Tile Tract No. 1ClayProducer
Lewisport Shale PlantClayProducer
West Point Brick and Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandview in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGrandview$70,000A two-mile wide swath of damaging winds occurred in extreme southeast Spencer County. There was evidence of embedded areas of brief rotation or gustnadoes, where wind speeds increased to around 80 mph, snapping large limbs and uprooting trees. A gustnado is a ground-based rotating column of air that is not rooted in the storm cloud. In Grandview, wind damage was mostly to trees and power lines. Some roof damage occurred. A fire station door was damaged. The damage path continued into Perry County.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrandview$35,000Semis were blown over on U.S. Highway 231 in Rockport. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in Grandview.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGrandview$20,000A wind gust to 62 mph was measured in Rockport. Trees and power lines were blown down in Grandview and Rockport.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrandview$10,000In Rockport, a garage roof was damaged by a tree falling onto it. Multiple trees were down in the Grandview area.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGrandview$7,000Numerous trees were blown down in the Grandview area. A large tree fell onto a house, causing considerable damage.
May 2009FloodGrandview-Minor flooding of the Ohio River occurred. At the Newburgh gage in Warrick County, where flood stage is 38 feet, the river crested at 41.90 feet on the 13th. Agricultural bottomland and low-lying areas were flooded.
June 2008Heavy RainGrandview-A total of 2.37 inches of rain fell in two hours.
July 2006Flash FloodGrandview-A trained spotter reported 3.01 inches of rain fell in 90 minutes near Enterprise. Another spotter reported 3 inches of rain in Rockport. Numerous roads were flooded across southern parts of the county. Flooding occurred on U.S. Highway 231 just north of Rockport. Water depth on roads in Rockport was up to car bumpers.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Several large tree limbs were down in Grandview, and three trees were down just north of town.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindGrandview-Trees were uprooted.
April 1998FloodGrandview-Thunderstorms with very heavy rain resulted in several roads becoming water covered. Some vehicles were in need of assistance.
November 2013Funnel CloudGrandview-no account filed
January 2006HailGrandview-no account filed
April 2006HailGrandview-no account filed
May 2003HailGrandview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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
Rock Hill3.2 miles17
Ritchie3.6 miles17
Silverdale4.9 miles17
Rockport5.0 miles17
Newtonville5.1 miles15
Lincoln Pioneer Village5.5 miles17
Centerville6.0 miles17
Chrisney6.3 miles18

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 Q3287719The 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 449661. 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.