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Grandview Plaza, Kansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66441. It stands on Franks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. 1,697 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Grandview Plaza within Geary County

Population over time

2 figures

Grandview Plaza grew from 1,560 to 1,697 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
20101,560
20201,697+137 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

83 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Grandview Plaza between 2015 and 2020, burning about 5,410 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeary County1344
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1163
1 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service978
5 July 2018Fireworks1.0 acresKansas Forest Service114
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service892
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeary County1005
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service883
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service886

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geary County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandview Plaza in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
May 2007Flash FloodGrandview Plaza$50,000Water reported over Clarks Creek Rd. about one foot deep.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza$10,000Strong winds blew windows and a door out of a trailer. Another trailer was blow atop a parked vehicle. A van had windows blown out.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza$2,000A pole barn was damaged 4 miles south of Interstate 70 near Junction City, Kansas.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza$2,000Near Junction City, two trees blew down at a residence with power pole damage. Also near Junction City a shed was blown 30 feet into a tree.
March 2024HailGrandview Plaza-Report of slightly larger than baseball size hail.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Estimated wind gust of 70 mph.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Power line and poles reported down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Several trees down with estimated 80 mph outflow wind.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Winds estimated at 80 mph along outflow, several trees down.
May 2020HailGrandview Plaza-Half dollar size hail reported.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Estimated thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Several 2 to 3 inch diameter tree limbs down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGrandview Plaza-Wind gusts estimated.
May 2017HailGrandview Plaza-no account filed
April 2009HailGrandview Plaza-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Geary 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
Junction City2.2 miles25
Wreford5.6 miles15
Kansas Falls7.3 miles16
Alida9.2 miles25
Milford11.6 miles25

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 Grandview PlazaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2385975The 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 484915. 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.

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.