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Granger, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46530. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsburg quadrangle. 30,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Granger within St. Joseph County

Population over time

2 figures

Granger fell from 30,465 to 30,337 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
201030,465
202030,337-128 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

2,276 words on this township

History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Harris Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Grand Trunk railroad passes through this township, running a northeast course. Tliere is no town upon this line in this township, - nothing but a station, wiiere there are a depot and postoffice, called Granger; no business of any kind is done.

Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Harris Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Granger between 2018 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural1
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 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 178 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2019102 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 149 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDSBURG FD 0000055 - 2019
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018088 - 2018
24 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDSBURG FD 0000053 - 2019
23 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 138 - 2019
23 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDSBURG FD 0000052 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Granger: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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
A&K Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bret Schneider Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indiana Highways MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indiana Highways Materials, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Millikin Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granger in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGranger$50,000Numerous reports of trees down and branches down in an area from Mishawaka High School to Granger. Some instances of property damage, including shingles blown off a church.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGranger$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Granger, along State Road 23. Damage amounts are estimated.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGranger$10,000Three large evergreen trees are down and power outages reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGranger$10,000Numerous reports of trees and power lines down in and around Granger.
March 2023Flash FloodGranger$10,000Clay fire department was en route for a report of a vehicle in water.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGranger$10,000Trees were down and blocking the road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGranger$5,000Trees down with debris in the roadway around Granger. One location was Brick and Wayland. The second location was Brick and Current St.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGranger$2,000Law enforcement reported a large tree down on a garage in Granger.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGranger$1,000Large tree uprooted.
June 2024LightningGranger$500Flag pole stuck by lightning. Flag pole snapped.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGranger-Trees and power lines down around Granger.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindGranger-A picture was shared on social media of a large, partially rotten tree branch was blown off the bottom of a tree.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGranger-One foot diameter tree snapped. Pictures showed it was partially rotted.
July 2014HailGranger-The public reported hail to the size of ping pong balls fell for 5 to 10 minutes.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGranger-Local media outlets reported several trees and tree branches snapped along a three block wide swath in Granger.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGranger-The public reported two large trees down just south of the Michigan state line in Granger.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGranger-Several areas of wind damage were noted starting near the intersection of Fir and Cleveland Roads, continuing to near the intersection of Brick and Fir Roads. Damage occurred at a Marathon gas station at the intersection of Fir and State Route 23. A gas pump was blown over, with newspaper machines shifted and a Uhaul trailer being flipped over. At least one parked vehicle in the lot was also overturned. Several trees were damaged or uprooted in the area, as well as some sign damage. Near the end of the main damage, several large trees fell down around a residence where the occupant was in the basement watching TV. A tree fell just to the side of where his car was parked, with the car sustaining no damage.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Granger-Eyewitnesses reported a brief tornado touchdown near the intersection of State Route 23 and Fir Road, southwest of Granger. This tornado formed on the leading edge of a squall line that moved through the area.
July 1998HailGranger-SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORT.
June 2022HailGranger-no account filed
June 2022HailGranger-no account filed
June 2022HailGranger-no account filed
June 2022HailGranger-no account filed
June 2022HailGranger-no account filed
February 2017HailGranger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Pleasant Valley4.5 miles13
Osceola6.4 miles13
Georgetown6.4 miles14
Maple Lane6.7 miles14
Mishawaka6.8 miles14
Indian Village7.1 miles14
Dreamwold Heights7.6 miles16
State Line7.6 miles16

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 GrangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2657932The 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 452610. 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.