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Grady, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Broadview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88120. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,600 feet above sea level.

Grady within Curry County

Population over time

3 figures

Grady fell from 98 to 86 between 2000 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
200098
2010107+9 (+9%)
202086-21 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Grady between 1993 and 2017, burning about 1,835 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined7
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWOOD
22 July 2011Natural80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFURY
18 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMASON
5 June 2004Natural80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionUNION
11 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionYELLOW
3 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresLas Vegas DistrictBORDEN HARRIS
21 February 2002Equipment and vehicle use80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBORDEN
6 December 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGRADY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grady: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grady in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGrady$100,000A microburst with estimated 70 to 90 mph winds from a severe thunderstorm caused significant damage in and around Grady as well as in far southern Quay County. North-northwest of Grady, a National Weather Service damage survey team found 17 downed electrical transmission line poles due to the microburst. A couple of the poles were snapped at the base while some were snapped halfway up the pole. Damages are estimated for the destruction of the transmission pole lines.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGrady$25,000A microburst with estimated 70 to 90 mph winds from a severe thunderstorm caused significant damage in and around Grady as well as in far southern Quay County. In Grady, a National Weather Service damage survey team estimated 70 mph winds associated with the microburst caused roof damage with metal roofs pealed back from their structures. The microburst also removed a porch cover that was attached to a house. Additionally, large trees were unrooted, and large tree limbs were downed. Damages are estimated for the roof damage as well as the tree damage.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindGrady$10,000A mesonet station measured a 92.4 mph thunderstorm wind gust. This gust caused damage blowing out the northside windows of a Baptist church.
June 1994HailGrady$5,000no account filed
April 2025Flash FloodGrady-State Highway 275 at mile marker 6 was closed due to flooding and standing water on the roadway.
May 2025HailGrady-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail at Grady, New Mexico.
May 2025Funnel CloudGrady-A funnel cloud was observed by the Quay County emergency manager looking south from Logan.
May 2023HailGrady-A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail 2 miles east of Grady, NM.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Grady-A storm chaser reported a brief tornado near the Quay and Curry County line. No damage was reported.
May 2023Flash FloodGrady-The NM Department of Highways reported NM Highway 278 closed from flooding due to heavy rain.
June 2021HailGrady-A member of the public in Grady reported quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm tracking eastward through the area.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGrady-A school weather station in Grady measured a peak wind gust of 84 mph from a thunderstorm microburst.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGrady-ASOS reported 60 mph gust ahead of a thunderstorm.
June 2013HailGrady-Pea to quarter hail 2 miles southwest of Grady.
June 2013HailGrady-Nickel hail reported in Grady.
June 1994HailGrady-The public reported nickel-size hail from this thunderstorm.
May 1994HailGrady-Dime- to nickel-size hail reported between Grady and Broadview by the Broadview Gas Company.
November 2011HailGrady-no account filed
August 2009HailGrady-no account filed
June 2007HailGrady-no account filed
July 2005HailGrady-no account filed
June 2000Tornado (F0)Grady-no account filed
June 2000Tornado (F0)Grady-no account filed
June 1995HailGrady-no account filed
June 1995HailGrady-no account filed
June 1994HailGrady-no account filed
June 1994HailGrady-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Curry 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
Broadview5.5 miles7
Bellview11.1 miles6
Hollene12.4 miles6
Claud17.3 miles7
Field18.7 miles6
Weber City21.3 miles7
Ranchvale22.7 miles8
Pleasant Hill24.5 miles7

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 GradyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2919034The 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 898784. 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.