Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Grant. The city of Fertile borders it to the north. Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa Grant Township is one of 16 townships in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 354. Grant Township was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959. The site is located in the extreme
History of Ritchie Valens History of Ritchie Valens History of Ritchie Valens is a 3-record box set by Ritchie Valens, featuring his three original Del-Fi albums ("Ritchie Valens, Ritchie, & Ritchie Valens In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High") plus a booklet with biography and photos (See each album title for contents). The albums were replicated with the same covers as the original releases (with a cautionary note in the booklet indicating that the addresses shown on the covers were no longer valid). The records themselves were pressed with an "updated" version of the Del-Fi "diamonds" label in black with olive green print as opposed