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Grandville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grandville City. It lies in ZIP code area 49418. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandville quadrangle. 16,083 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Grandville within Kent County

Population over time

2 figures

Grandville grew from 15,378 to 16,083 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
201015,378
202016,083+705 (+5%)

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.

Fires near this place

63 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Grandville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 6 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 use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194678 - 2019
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194896 - 2019
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194763 - 2019
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANDVILLE FD 1256 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194072 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 0003855 - 2018
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194527 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Grandville: 15 producers, 4 past producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #1Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #2Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #3Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Butterworth Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheyne Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
De Went Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gillisse Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Gravel Co. Plant No.20Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Plant No. 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandville in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2001Tornado (F0)Grandville$100,000A F0 tornado touched down just south of Carlton Park Drive and moved north, ending just north of Chicago Drive. The tornado produced some tree damage and siding was peeled back on one home. The tornado produced maximum estimated wind speeds to 70 m.p.h., with a 0.6 mile path length and path width of 50 yards.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindGrandville$50,000Between 1745 and 1800 EST, a thunderstorm caused wind gusts estimated at 60 mph and 0.75 inch diameter hail. A large wooden fence and several trees 8 to 12 inches in diameter were blown down. Another large tree thought to be over 100 years old was toppled, and a camper was flipped over and totaled. A dugout near Grandville's West Elementary School had a cinder block wall blown down during the storm.
May 2006HailGrandville$20,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported near Grandville and a roof was blown off an abandoned house in Grand Rapids.
October 2001Flash FloodGrandville$20,000no account filed
October 2001HailGrandville$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGrandville$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGrandville$2,500Power lines downed in Grandville.
April 2002HailGrandville$2,000no account filed
June 2007HailGrandville-Three quarters inch hail was reported at the intersection of 28th and Byron Center streets.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGrandville-A 65 mile per hour wind gust was recorded in Grandville.
August 1993HailGrandville-Between 1745 and 1800 EST, a thunderstorm caused wind gusts estimated at 60 mph and 0.75 inch diameter hail. A large wooden fence and several trees 8 to 12 inches in diameter were blown down. Another large tree thought to be over 100 years old was toppled, and a camper was flipped over and totaled. A dugout near Grandville's West Elementary School had a cinder block wall blown down during the storm.
April 1998HailGrandville-no account filed
September 1997HailGrandville-no account filed
April 1994HailGrandville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Wyoming3.1 miles17
Standale4.4 miles11
North Byron4.7 miles15
Grand Rapids6.2 miles17
Walker6.3 miles14
Kentwood6.9 miles15
Byron Center7.1 miles15
Cutlerville7.1 miles15

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 GrandvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1935053The 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 627126. 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.