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Granger, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76530. It stands on Opossum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granger quadrangle. 1,183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Granger within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Granger fell from 1,419 to 1,183 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
20101,419
20201,183-236 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Granger between 2009 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 324
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 30
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 343
12 July 2018Misuse of fire by a minor14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 354
9 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARTLETT MUTUAL AID 2012 #4
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 342 GRASS FIRE
2 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAR DITCH FIRE 2 MILES SOUTH OF GRANGER
12 January 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOT IN DISTRICT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granger in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGranger$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged trees and blew roofs off homes in the Granger area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGranger$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that damaged a restaurant in Granger.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGranger$3,000Corps of Engineers reports very strong winds causing damage to trees in the Granger Dam area.
March 2025HailGranger-A thunderstorm produced pea to quarter size hail in Granger.
May 2025Flash FloodGranger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 349 at Opossum Creek east of Granger.
April 2025HailGranger-A thunderstorm produced hail up to ping pong ball size between Taylor and Granger.
April 2019Flash FloodGranger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 95 at Wills Creek south of Granger.
June 2019HailGranger-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Granger.
May 2016Flash FloodGranger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in water rescues in Granger.
July 2014Flash FloodGranger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR 347 north of CR 346 at Opossum Creek.
July 2007Flash FloodGranger-Thunderstorms produced from 3 to 4 inches of rain in the Granger area causing flash flooding that closed FM971 and SH95.
August 2005Flash FloodGranger-The late evening thunderstorms over northeast Williamson County produced rain totals near 3 inches between Granger and Hare near the Milam County line. Flash flooding developed shortly after midnight, ending in the early morning hours. FM973 was closed due to high water.
July 1999Funnel CloudGranger-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGranger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Keelersville4.2 miles17
Mozo4.7 miles17
Bartlett5.4 miles14
Circleville5.6 miles15
Friendship6.0 miles14
Waterloo6.2 miles15
Hoxie6.7 miles14
Elm Grove6.9 miles14

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 GrangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981677The 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 1358264. 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.