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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.

Adair within Guthrie County

Population over time

2 figures

Adair 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.

YearPeople Change
2010781
2020791+10 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2007

Regional 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
10 April 2020Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 February 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007FloodAdair$250,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAdair$20,000no account filed
September 2002HailAdair$20,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAdair$10,000Emergency 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 2009Flash FloodAdair$10,000Water reported over White Pole Rd.
July 2000HailAdair$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAdair$5,000A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAdair$5,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAdair$5,000no account filed
August 1993HailAdair$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailAdair$3,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAdair$3,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAdair$3,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAdair$1,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAdair$1,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAdair$1,000no account filed
May 2020Tornado (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 2019Thunderstorm WindAdair-Automated mesonet site along Interstate 80 recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2019Tornado (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 2013Heavy RainAdair-Rainfall from approximately 2100 to 0300 was 5.5 inches.
June 2007HailAdair-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Casey6.6 miles9
North Branch10.7 miles9
Menlo12.7 miles11
Guthrie Center14.3 miles9
Glendon14.3 miles11
Monteith14.5 miles11
Wichita16.2 miles9
Stuart17.2 miles11

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 AdairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903298The 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.