Adair, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 50002. The Survey maps it on the Adair North quadrangle. 791 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAdair grew from 781 to 791 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 781 | |
| 2020 | 791 | +10 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Adair North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Adair between 2007 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 January 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 January 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adair in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Flood | Adair | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Adair | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported trees blown over on White Pole Road. A car ran into the downed trees. The location is estimated, as well as the time from radar. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Adair | $10,000 | Water reported over White Pole Rd. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Adair | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $5,000 | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Adair | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Adair | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Adair | - | Storm Chaser observed a tornado north of Adair in rural Guthrie county. The tornado had an intermittent path with no damage indicators impacted, therefore the EFU rating. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Automated mesonet site along Interstate 80 recorded a 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Adair | - | This tornado entered from Adair County and continued to move north through rural areas. Only tree damage and minor power line damage was observed. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Adair | - | Rainfall from approximately 2100 to 0300 was 5.5 inches. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Adair | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casey | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| North Branch | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Menlo | 12.7 miles | 11 | |
| Guthrie Center | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Glendon | 14.3 miles | 11 | |
| Monteith | 14.5 miles | 11 | |
| Wichita | 16.2 miles | 9 | |
| Stuart | 17.2 miles | 11 |
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 Adair | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1903298 | The 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 454088. 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.





