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Grenville, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clayton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88424. It lies near Cherry Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Grenville quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,981 feet above sea level.

Grenville within Union County

Population over time

3 figures

Grenville fell from 25 to 22 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
200025
201038+13 (+52%)
202022-16 (-42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Grenville between 2009 and 2019, burning about 699 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
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
5 July 2009Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSNIDER CREEK
26 July 2016Natural83 acresCimarron DistrictGRENVILLE
16 July 2019Natural110 acresCimarron District20-20140075X
28 June 2011Natural350 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAMPBELL
28 June 2011Natural5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGRENVILLE IV
28 June 2011Natural5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGRENVILLE III
20 January 2014Equipment and vehicle use145 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJONES LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grenville: 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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
58 133 FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #56 27 8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #57 111 FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit #57 112 SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit #59 106 FSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seneca PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grenville in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 32 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2021Flash FloodGrenville$30,000Heavy rain in Grenville resulted in flash flooding. Union County law enforcement reported one car that was washed into a ditch as well as a truck that was washed into a median along U.S. Highway 87. No injuries to either driver or passengers were reported. A Union County dispatcher also reported flooding at the Grenville cemetery, but it was unknown how deep the water there was. Damages are estimated for the loss of the two vehicles.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGrenville$7,500Semi trailer blown over on Highway 64 three miles to the east southeast of Grenville. Law enforcement relayed this trailer was empty and parked at a home.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGrenville$2,000The combination of large hail and severe wind gusts downed several tree branches and completely destroyed a greenhouse. Hail accumulated 3 to 4 inches.
July 2010HailGrenville$500The hail lasted 15 minutes and accumulated four to five inches deep. The hail broke a car windshield.
June 2025HailGrenville-A storm chaser shared a video of estimated ping pong ball size hail along NM 453 just south of U.S. 64/87.
May 2024HailGrenville-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Grenville from a severe thunderstorm.
May 2024HailGrenville-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail from a severe storm in northern Union County.
June 2023HailGrenville-Golf ball sized hail reported north of Grenville as supercell moved east towards the Texas and Oklahoma border.
June 2023HailGrenville-Ping pong ball size hail fell as a supercell moved east across northern Union County.
August 2018HailGrenville-Hail up to the size of two inches in Grenville. Most hail stones were between pea and dime size.
June 2018HailGrenville-Hail ranging from the size of peas to quarters was reported eight miles northeast of Grenville.
June 2017HailGrenville-Hail up to the size of half dollars near Grenville.
August 2017HailGrenville-Hail up to the size of nickels accumulated on highway near Grenville. Traffic stopped along U.S. 64/87.
May 2017HailGrenville-Hail up to the size of quarters northeast of Grenville.
May 2017HailGrenville-Hail up to the size of quarters from the second storm in a row northeast of Grenville.
June 2015HailGrenville-Trained spotter reported pea to quarter size hail in Grenville.
August 2015HailGrenville-Quarter size hail near Grenville. Light accumulations were noted.
August 2015HailGrenville-Pea to quarter size hail along U.S. Highway 64 between Des Moines and Grenville. Plow trucks called out to move hail off roadway.
June 2014Funnel CloudGrenville-Storm chasers video feed showed funnel cloud development 20 miles west of Grenville.
June 2013HailGrenville-Quarter hail in Grenville.
June 2013HailGrenville-Ping pong hail in Grenville.
June 2013HailGrenville-Nickel hail in Grenville.
March 2001HailGrenville-Nickel size hail covering ground to two inches deep at Grenville.
August 2001HailGrenville-Marble to golfball size hail covering Highway 87 at Grenville.
July 1994HailGrenville-Nickel-size hail was reported by local storm spotters.
July 2023HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2010HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2009HailGrenville-no account filed
May 2007HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2007HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2006HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGrenville-no account filed
May 2003HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2003HailGrenville-no account filed
May 2001HailGrenville-no account filed
May 2001HailGrenville-no account filed
June 1996HailGrenville-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Grenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Mount Dora8.4 miles8
Grande9.9 miles8
Corrumpa (historical)14.3 miles8
Sofia14.9 miles7
Willow Springs (historical)15.8 miles8
Des Moines16.4 miles8
Royce17.6 miles9
Guy18.1 miles8

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 GrenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2581406The 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 928315. 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.