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Granby, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Granby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64844. The Survey maps it on the Granby quadrangle. 2,050 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

Granby within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Granby fell from 2,134 to 2,050 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
20102,134
20202,050-84 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Granby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 372 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 372 workings within 5 miles of Granby: 371 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
Cadmium MineZinc, CadmiumPast Producer
Old Devil MineZinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb & CoalZinc, Lead, CoalPast Producer
Lt. George Chase ShaftZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Booth Ryan & Co. MineLeadPast Producer
Culpepper DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Dorris & Cavender MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granby in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 21 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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
March 1993HailGranby$50,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGranby$25,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGranby$10,000no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindGranby$5,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGranby$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGranby$3,000Report of 3-inch tree limbs and power poles broken.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGranby$3,000Thunderstorms winds toppled a large tree and a car port suffered significant roof damage.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGranby$2,000Granby public works building had minor roof damage.
May 2024HailGranby-Social media report of quarter size hail.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGranby-Several large branches were downed due to high winds.
July 2021Flash FloodGranby-Several streets were flooded in town including along Highway 60 and Main Street.
July 2021Flash FloodGranby-Flooding was reported at low water areas along Tower Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGranby-Several trees were damaged with large limbs blown down or tops blown out of trees.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGranby-A large tree was snapped and blocking part of the 400 block of South Elm Street.
July 2020HailGranby-Quarter sized hail was reported.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindGranby-Multiple large limbs were broken out of hardwood trees.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGranby-A large tree was snapped a few feet off the ground. The report was received via social media.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindGranby-A large tree was reported down.
May 2019HailGranby-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGranby-Several trees were blown down. Siding and half a roof was blown off a house near Granby on Mettle Drive.
April 2017Flash FloodGranby-Flood water was over the roadway in Granby near West Cemetery Road and South Main Street.
March 2016HailGranby-Nickel size hail was reported near Granby. Video of the hail was on social media.
November 2015FloodGranby-Dry Branch Creek flooded a portion of Iris Road northeast of Neosho.
May 2010Flash FloodGranby-A foot of water was reported flowing over a low water crossing on Weibert Road east of old Highway E.
May 2010FloodGranby-Shoal Creek, north of Granby, was flowing over Highway E just south of Wagon Bridge.
March 2015HailGranby-no account filed
April 2012HailGranby-no account filed
May 2008HailGranby-no account filed
April 2007HailGranby-no account filed
May 2006HailGranby-no account filed
May 2006HailGranby-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGranby-no account filed
May 2006HailGranby-no account filed
November 2003HailGranby-no account filed
November 2003HailGranby-no account filed
June 2003HailGranby-no account filed
July 2003HailGranby-no account filed
July 2003HailGranby-no account filed
July 2003HailGranby-no account filed
July 2003HailGranby-no account filed
July 2003HailGranby-no account filed
June 1996HailGranby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Granby City1.7 miles14
Aroma3.9 miles16
Ritchey4.1 miles11
Monark Springs4.2 miles16
Newtonia4.7 miles11
Park5.2 miles11
Stark City5.4 miles11
Diamond6.2 miles14

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 GranbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q516048The 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 718664. 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.