Grancer, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Welchs Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It stands on Com Creek. The Survey maps it on the Welchs Creek quadrangle.

Grancer within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1925 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Welchs Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grancer between 2001 and 2012, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLADDER FI
19 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grancer in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 2018	Flash Flood	Grancer	$20,000	It was reported that Boss Hog Road near Grancer Road was completely washed out.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grancer	-	Multiple large trees were blown down near the intersection of Brooklyn Chapel Road and Tarvin Embry Road.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Grancer	-	Butler county Department of Highways reported trees down across Al Emery Road and Brooklyn Chapel Road near Brooklyn.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Love	2.0 miles	11
Brooklyn	2.1 miles	11
Lee	2.6 miles	13
Welchs Creek	2.7 miles	11
Bryant Ridge (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Decker	3.7 miles	13
Casey	3.7 miles	11
Temple View	3.8 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122589516

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 508118. 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.