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Grandview is a city in southeastern Johnson County, Texas, at U.S. Highway 81 and Interstate 35W, about twelve miles southeast of Cleburne.

The town was settled in 1850 on a land grant from Governor Elisha M. Pease, and settler John Whitmire is credited with naming it in 1854 when he looked over the site and exclaimed, 'What a Grand View!'

Grandview's Masonic lodge, chartered in 1861, was the first Masonic lodge in Johnson County, and the town's first school held classes in the lodge building.

After the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad bypassed the original townsite, Grandview picked up and moved to the rail line in 1883, and residents voted to incorporate in 1891.

Grandview was home to the Grandview Collegiate Institute, a college that operated from 1897 to 1907.

A devastating fire on March 14, 1920, destroyed close to thirty businesses and about 100 homes in Grandview, but the town rebuilt.

The town's name was officially shortened from two words, 'Grand View,' to the single word 'Grandview' in 1925.

Grandview had a population of 1,879 at the 2020 census, up more than 20 percent from 1,561 in 2010, within a city area of about 1.8 square miles.

Grandview is served by the Grandview Independent School District, whose teams are the Zebras and whose streets include Zebra Parkway; Grandview Elementary School was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2015.

The independent grocery chain David's Supermarkets was headquartered in Grandview until it was acquired by Brookshire Brothers in 2014.