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.
Population over time
2 figuresGrandview 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,560 | |
| 2020 | 1,697 | +137 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1886 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1947 USGS Fort Riley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
83 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Geary County | 1344 |
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1163 |
| 1 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 978 |
| 5 July 2018 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 114 |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 892 |
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Geary County | 1005 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 883 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 886 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Grandview Plaza | $50,000 | Water reported over Clarks Creek Rd. about one foot deep. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | $10,000 | Strong 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | $2,000 | A pole barn was damaged 4 miles south of Interstate 70 near Junction City, Kansas. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | $2,000 | Near 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 2024 | Hail | Grandview Plaza | - | Report of slightly larger than baseball size hail. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Estimated wind gust of 70 mph. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Power line and poles reported down. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Several trees down with estimated 80 mph outflow wind. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Winds estimated at 80 mph along outflow, several trees down. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Grandview Plaza | - | Half dollar size hail reported. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Estimated thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Several 2 to 3 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandview Plaza | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Grandview Plaza | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Grandview Plaza | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junction City | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Wreford | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Kansas Falls | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Alida | 9.2 miles | 25 | |
| Milford | 11.6 miles | 25 |
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 Plaza | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2385975 | 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 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.











