Granville, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Granville City. It lies in ZIP code area 58741. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.
On record in Granville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Granville State Banklisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresGranville fell from 241 to 240 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 | 241 | |
| 2020 | 240 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Granville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Granville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 856 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 368 |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-19 |
| 13 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LARRY BOUTLIER |
| 26 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NEILSON TRACTOR |
| 22 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-17 |
| 12 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-21 |
| 27 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-17 |
| 23 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Granville | $70,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Granville | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Granville | - | The tornado touched down in an open field south of Granville and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Granville | - | An aircraft pilot with the North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board reported seeing a tornado, seeing evidence that it was in contact with the ground, in rural McHenry County. Doppler radar was used to narrow the more exact location. Follow up with emergency management indicated there were no reports of damage and so the tornado was rated EF0. Prior to touchdown a funnel cloud was observed for several minutes. See the funnel cloud entry for this same day in McHenry County. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Granville | - | hail also accompanied by 70-90 mph winds |
| September 2025 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Granville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Granville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2322138 | 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 1029218. 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.



