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Anthon, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kedron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51004. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Correctionville quadrangle. 545 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Anthon within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Anthon fell from 565 to 545 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
2010565
2020545-20 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Anthon: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anthon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cockburn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anthon in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 22 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindAnthon$75,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a garage and cattle barn. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindAnthon$50,000no account filed
September 2004Tornado (F0)Anthon$10,000A tornado damaged corn and soybean crops, and trees. The tornado knocked down 3 power poles, and destroyed 5 outbuildings on two farms.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAnthon$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Several tree limbs down.
June 2014Heavy RainAnthon-Rainfall of 4.60 inches was measured.
May 2012Heavy RainAnthon-Heavy rainfall of 4.20 inches washed out a driveway.
May 2012HailAnthon-Penny size hail was accompanied by one inch of rain.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees uprooted. The winds also blew dowm power lines and poles.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and blew down at least one power pole.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 4 inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 2008HailAnthon-Large hail, driven by damaging winds, broke several windows and dented vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAnthon-Thunderstorm winds blew a car off a road.
April 2024HailAnthon-no account filed
April 2016HailAnthon-no account filed
June 2014HailAnthon-no account filed
May 2012HailAnthon-no account filed
May 2012HailAnthon-no account filed
May 2012HailAnthon-no account filed
May 2011HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2009HailAnthon-no account filed
May 2008HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2007HailAnthon-no account filed
September 2007HailAnthon-no account filed
September 2007HailAnthon-no account filed
July 2006HailAnthon-no account filed
April 2004HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2002HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2002HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2000HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2000HailAnthon-no account filed
August 2000HailAnthon-no account filed
June 1996HailAnthon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Lucky Valley (historical)3.8 miles8
Oto7.3 miles8
Correctionville7.4 miles8
Midway7.4 miles9
Pierson10.8 miles9
Cushing11.4 miles8
Smithland11.5 miles8
Climbing Hill11.6 miles9

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 AnthonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922623The 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 454198. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.