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Arcadia, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arcadia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51430. The Survey maps it on the Arcadia quadrangle. 525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.

Arcadia within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Arcadia grew from 484 to 525 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
2010484
2020525+41 (+8%)

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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Arcadia between 2009 and 2011, burning about 2 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/undetermined4

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
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH SIDE OF TOWN, IA
1 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2341 HWY 30, IA
4 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources25607 HWY 30 CARROLL, IA, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 10 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindArcadia$75,000A few three foot diameter trees were downed. A 30 foot long camper attached to a truck was blown over. Several crops damaged.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindArcadia$10,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindArcadia$5,000Trained spotter reported winds estimated at 70 MPH. A horse feeder was blown over.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArcadia$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArcadia$5,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindArcadia$3,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindArcadia$3,000no account filed
August 2009HailArcadia$2,000Heavy rain, quarter size hail, and strong wind.
July 2006HailArcadia$2,000no account filed
July 2008HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
July 2008HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
July 2008HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
May 2005HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
October 1994HailArcadia$1,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Gust measured from personal weather station.
July 2024HailArcadia-Delayed spotter report of quarter-sized hail in Arcadia.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Trained spotter reported 65 mph wind gusts along with quarter sized hail.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindArcadia-Public reported 60 mph winds and quarter sized hail in Arcadia. Time estimated.
July 2008HailArcadia-no account filed
April 2005HailArcadia-no account filed
May 2001HailArcadia-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Arcadia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Maple River5.9 miles8
Halbur6.9 miles8
Breda7.5 miles8
Mount Carmel8.6 miles8
Roselle9.2 miles8
Carroll9.6 miles8
Manning12.3 miles8
Templeton12.9 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 ArcadiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913572The 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 454218. 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.