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.
Population over time
2 figuresArcadia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 484 | |
| 2020 | 525 | +41 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Arcadia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN, IA |
| 1 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2341 HWY 30, IA |
| 4 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 25607 HWY 30 CARROLL, IA, IA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $75,000 | A few three foot diameter trees were downed. A 30 foot long camper attached to a truck was blown over. Several crops damaged. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported winds estimated at 70 MPH. A horse feeder was blown over. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Arcadia | $2,000 | Heavy rain, quarter size hail, and strong wind. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Arcadia | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Arcadia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Gust measured from personal weather station. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Arcadia | - | Delayed spotter report of quarter-sized hail in Arcadia. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Trained spotter reported 65 mph wind gusts along with quarter sized hail. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Public reported 60 mph winds and quarter sized hail in Arcadia. Time estimated. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Arcadia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple River | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Halbur | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Breda | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Carmel | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Roselle | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Carroll | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Manning | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Templeton | 12.9 miles | 9 |
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 Arcadia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1913572 | 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 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.




