Anderson, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sidney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51652. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAnderson fell from 65 to 37 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 | 65 | |
| 2020 | 37 | -28 (-43%) |
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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Anderson between 2006 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 330 AVE AND 130 ST, IA |
| 6 March 2020 | Smoking | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 December 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anderson in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF2) | Anderson | - | An EF2 tornado started 4 1/2 miles east-northeast of Sidney and moved east, paralleling Iowa Highway 2 for most of it's life cycle. The tornado flattened corn, uprooted and snapped trees, destroyed grain bins, flattened sheds and blew a roof off of a rural home. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anderson | - | Pea size hail was also reported from the spotter in addition to the strong winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anderson | - | Outflow gusts from thunderstorms were estimated to have reached 60 mph. The winds were accompanied by pea-size hail. |
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.
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 Anderson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5675000 | 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 454177. 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.





