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Granville, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65275. It stands on Little Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle.

Granville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Granville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
6 April 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2018Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176810-10243-04202018-1817
21 March 1997Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation132640-06949-02012016-1445
13 December 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 November 2007Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 January 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190207-06902-01032020-1730

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Granville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville in 14 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
October 2007Tornado (EF2)Granville2 killed, $50,000The tornado touched down and destroyed a mobile home just south of Highway F, about a third of a mile east of CR 419. The entire base frame of the mobile home was tossed a third of a mile to the north from it original location into a soybean field. Two occupants of the mobile home were thrown several hundred feet to the north and killed by the tornado. Approximately 100 yards to the north northeast of the mobile home, a large barn and machine shed were destroyed. Debris from the barn, machine shed and mobile home could be found along a path that stretched up to 4 miles from the intial touchdown point of the tornado. Residences within the 4 mile corridor identified clothing, insulation, pieces of furniture and metal. Isolated tree damage was found further along the path before the tornado lifted and dissipated just north of the intersection of Highway 15 and State Highway J.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindGranville$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of a house, knocked large tree limbs down, and damaged a new machine shed. The observed thunderstorm wind gust was measured with a Davis weather station.
October 2024Tornado (EF0)Granville$10,000An EF-0 tornado formed shortly before 11pm CDT off of County Rd 274, initially producing minor tree damage. The tornado moved quickly northeastward and peaked in intensity, impacting a farm off of Highway MM, destroying an outbuilding. From there, the tornado continued east-northeast, producing sporadic tree damage before dissipating just east of Monroe Rd 311. The tornado had a path length of 6.02 miles and a max path width of 150 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGranville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs 5 miles northeast of Granville and blew one tree over onto power lines about 5 miles north of Paris.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Granville-A third tornado touched down in Monroe County about three quarters of a mile south of the intersection of County Roads 284 and 215. A metal shed, a pole barn and a house were damaged in this location. The tornado then traveled to the northeast damaging numerous structures, automobiles and trees along County Road 284. One house had the entire corner of the roof and walls removed while a mobile home suffered extensive damage with one half of the structure being completely destroyed as it was flipped over. Further northeast along County Road 239 another farm sustained damage. A machine shed was partially destroyed with missile debris observed in a camper that was parked on the property. The debris field stretched for 100 yards to the northeast. Further along the path another pole barn was destroyed and a large grove of cedar trees...most of which were 1 foot in diameter...were snapped off. Just north of the intersection of Highway 15 and County Road 386, more power poles were snapped off and a pole barn sustained minor damage to the siding and roof. The tornado continued to the northeast and crossed into Shelby County near the intersection of County Roads 398 and 307.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindGranville-Numerous power poles were blown down along Highway A from half a mile south of the intersection of Highway A and County Road 182 to the intersection of Highways A and DD.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGranville-A corn field was flattened by downburst winds extending from a quarter of a mile to three quarters of a mile east of the intersection of Highway 15 and State Highway J.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGranville-Straight line winds caused minor to moderate damage to several farm buildings on CR 169 between CR 174 and CR 182.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGranville-no account filed
June 2022HailGranville-no account filed
February 2017HailGranville-no account filed
May 2014HailGranville-no account filed
May 2014HailGranville-no account filed
March 2006HailGranville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Holliday5.0 miles15
Fowkes5.7 miles18
Woodlawn6.2 miles8
Paris7.6 miles18
Madison8.5 miles15
Duncans Bridge8.9 miles10
Goss8.9 miles11
North Fork10.0 miles11

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 GranvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986049The 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 718712. 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.