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Armstrong, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Armstrong Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50514. The Survey maps it on the Armstrong quadrangle. 875 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Armstrong within Emmet County

On record in Armstrong

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Armstrong fell from 926 to 875 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
2010926
2020875-51 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Armstrong in 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/undetermined1

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
6 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources40TH AVE AND 450TH ST., IA

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

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 Armstrong: 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
Gaarde PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hoien Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kossuth County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 10 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$100,000A 66 foot by 76 foot barn, 50 feet high, was destroyed by high winds. A grain bin was blown off its concrete pad. Debris, grass, and corn was blown across the highway.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$75,000no account filed
May 1994HailArmstrong$50,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$25,000no account filed
June 2001HailArmstrong$20,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$10,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$5,000Law enforcement reported winds over Iowa Lake, north of Armstrong, estimated at 60 to 65 MPH. Pea size hail also.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$3,000no account filed
September 2005HailArmstrong$3,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$2,000Tree damage reported by the public.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$2,000no account filed
July 2004HailArmstrong$2,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindArmstrong$2,000no account filed
April 2004HailArmstrong$1,000no account filed
July 2017Heavy RainArmstrong-Emergency manager reported heavy rainfall of 2 to 3 inches.
July 2014Heavy RainArmstrong-A trained spotter reported a measurement of 4.25 inches of rain.
August 2010Tornado (EF0)Armstrong-A tornado formed and touched down briefly over Iowa Lake.
June 2013HailArmstrong-no account filed
June 2013Funnel CloudArmstrong-no account filed
May 2012HailArmstrong-no account filed
June 2010FloodArmstrong-no account filed
May 2008HailArmstrong-no account filed
June 2004HailArmstrong-no account filed
June 1999HailArmstrong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Halfa4.5 miles7
Gridley5.0 miles7
Ringsted7.2 miles7
Maple Hill7.8 miles7
Dolliver9.1 miles7
Forsyth9.7 miles7
Bubona (historical)10.7 miles7
Hoprig11.5 miles7

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 ArmstrongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1762852The 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 454236. 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.

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.