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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.

Granville within McHenry County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Granville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010241
2020240-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

18 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service368
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-19
13 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLARRY BOUTLIER
26 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNEILSON TRACTOR
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-17
12 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-21
27 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-17
23 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Flash FloodGranville$70,000no account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Granville$30,000no account filed
September 2025Tornado (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 2023Thunderstorm WindGranville-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2013Tornado (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 1997HailGranville-hail also accompanied by 70-90 mph winds
September 2025HailGranville-no account filed
September 2025HailGranville-no account filed
September 2025HailGranville-no account filed
July 2022HailGranville-no account filed
June 2020HailGranville-no account filed
June 2016HailGranville-no account filed
July 2012HailGranville-no account filed
July 2012HailGranville-no account filed
June 2004HailGranville-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGranville-no account filed
August 1994HailGranville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Riga7.4 miles7
Rising7.6 miles6
Simcoe7.8 miles8
Norwich7.9 miles8
Genoa9.5 miles8
Verendrye11.5 miles6
Denbigh13.9 miles8
Deering14.2 miles9

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 Q2322138The 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.