Ayrshire, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Silver Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50515. The Survey maps it on the Ayrshire quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAyrshire fell from 143 to 133 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 | 143 | |
| 2020 | 133 | -10 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Ayrshire quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ayrshire in 2007, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ayrshire in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Ayrshire | $60,000 | Path of damage began a couple miles northeast of Ayrshire and moved north northeast, dissipating to the southeast of Graettinger. Along the path, several trees were damage along with a roof off of an outbuilding along with power pole damage. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Ayrshire | $50,000 | Public reported up to around baseball or larger sized hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Ayrshire | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Ayrshire | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | $10,000 | Trees were down south of Ayrshire on 380th Ave at 430th and 460th. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Ayrshire | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Ayrshire | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Ayrshire | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ayrshire | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Ayrshire | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ayrshire | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | - | Personal weather station recorded a 59 mph gust. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Ayrshire | - | KICD reported heavy rainfall of 3.40 inches since this morning. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ayrshire | - | Barn damage reported by the EM. |
| September 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Ayrshire | - | Brief touchdown |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ayrshire | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curlew | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Ruthven | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| Emmetsburg | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Mallard | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Fallow (historical) | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Osgood | 12.7 miles | 7 | |
| Graettinger | 14.4 miles | 7 | |
| Cylinder | 15.2 miles | 7 |
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 Ayrshire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2484891 | 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 454296. 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.



