Editing Grady, New Mexico (section)

==History ==

Grady was established in 1907 with a strong community of farming and ranching.  The Village was named after Pearl B. Grady, who owned most of the town site.  Pearl Grady was also the first postmaster.

Grady was chosen as the pending railroad depot for the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), but as it turned out, Grady was by-passed.

During Grady's history, the village had a hotel, two grocery stores, a bank, a doctor, a dentist, a drugstore, café, lumber & hardware store and a few other small businesses.

In 1925 a fire consumed the entire south side of the village destroying all of the businesses except the hotel.

In February 1952, a tornado hit Grady, with a number of homes destroyed.

Since the 1960s, the Village of Grady's population has remained close to 100 people and consists mainly of an older population of farmers.  The public school is a center piece of Grady, but enrollment continues to decline.

{{US Census population
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|1940= 237
|1950= 180
|1960= 100
|1970= 104
|1980= 122
|1990= 110
|2000= 98
|2010= 107
|2020= 86
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:35&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}</ref>
}}