Grain Valley, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sni-A-Bar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64029. It stands on Blue Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle. 15,627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Grain Valley within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Grain Valley grew from 12,854 to 15,627 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	12,854
2020	15,627	+2,773 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1934 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

6,834 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Sni-a-bar or ' ' Shnee-a-bar " township, as it occurs in some old records, was first organized May 5, 1834, but has undergone many changes since that date. Sni-a-bar township is bounded north by Fort Osage, east by Lafayette county, south by Van Buren and Prairie, and west by Prairie and Blue townships. It is the central eastern township, and enjoys as great a variety of surface and soil as any in Jackson county. The population is between 4,350 and 5,000, and the agricultural resources are very superior especially in the western portion. The township contains 600 farms under cultivation, averaging 100 acres each, and these farms are valued at from $20 to $35 per acre, depending on location and improvements. The Chicago & Alton Railroad runs through the township in an easterly and westerly direction, and upon this line Blue Springs, Grain Valley and Oak Grove, three little villages within its borders are located. Pink Hill, another little post village, is situated about four miles north of the Chicago & Alton Railroad.

Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.

He came into the township in March, 1839. Tennessee is his native state, where he lived till seven years of age, then came to the Territory of Illinois in the year i8og. In 1812 he came to Boone's Lick, in the Territory of Missouri, since Howard county. During his father's residence at Boone's Lick, after attaining his majority, he spent one year in Arkansas, then went on a trading expedition to New Mexico in the first wagon train across the plains, a distance of 800 miles. A short time after returning from Santa Fe, he removed with his father to what was then known as the Blue River country, about four miles a little north of east from Independence. This was the fall of 1825, and only a few settlers then lived in what is now Jackson county, Jacob Gregg lived there with his father for about three years and then after living near the old homestead for about two years, removed to Independence, where he remained about two years. Then lived on two different farms east of Independence for several years, then came to Sni-a-bar township in which he now lives. In the year 1826, he was appointed constable of Blue township by the authority of the county court of Lafayette county. In 1827, J. R. Walker was sheriff' and Gregg his deputy, in which position he served for three years. During this time he was appointed county surveyor and was surveyor till elected sheriff in the year 1832. He was sheriff till 1836, and in 1850 was elected to the General Assembly of Missouri, on the Whig ticket, and served one term. While at Stony Point he was postmaster. Mr. Gregg now lives at Grain Valley, on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, fifteen miles south east of Independence, He has five sons now living, two of whom live in the vicinity of Grain Valley. Nine children, all of whom have grown to matu-

Britton M. Capell came from Kentucky in the year 1840, and settled a farm near what is now the village of Grain Valley, and still hyes where he first settled and reared a family. He is a man of strong individual will and set purpose.

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 Sni-A-Bar Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Grain Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
3 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	166068-04828-03032018-1657
1 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	241147-04828-12012020-2215

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grain Valley: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hutchins Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pink Hill Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grain Valley in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grain Valley	$5,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Grain Valley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Pink Hill	2.4 miles	21
Oak Grove	3.7 miles	21
Hiler	4.2 miles	21
Blue Springs	4.4 miles	23
Tarsney Lakes	4.5 miles	18
Tarsney	5.2 miles	18
Lake Tapawingo	6.0 miles	23
Sni Mills	6.2 miles	18

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 Grain Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954871	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 718661. 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.