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Bayard, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50029. The Survey maps it on the Bayard quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Bayard within Guthrie County

Population over time

2 figures

Bayard fell from 471 to 405 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
2010471
2020405-66 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bayard in 2006, burning about 1 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/undetermined2

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
25 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bayard: 7 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
H B JenelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lewis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
P. BrutscheSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitcomb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayard in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1995Tornado (F4)Bayard1 hurt, $2,000,000no account filed
September 2015Flash FloodBayard$200,000Emergency Manager reported Highway 141 closed southeast of Coon Rapids, and may need to be closed near Bagley shortly. County Road P18 closed north of Bagley. Authorities are limiting access to Bayard. Extensive flooding across northern Guthrie county.
June 2013Flash FloodBayard$200,000Six to eight inches of water over several streets in Bayard. Water over the underpass of Highway 25 in Bayard.
June 2015FloodBayard$100,000Many primary and secondary roads were flooded. Some roads were washed out. Eight inches of flowing water was still over Highway 141 west of Bagley. Springbrook State Park was closed as water was over Hwy F25 in both directions.
September 2015FloodBayard$100,000Emergency Manager reported widespread flooding across northern Guthrie County. All paved roads north of Highway 141 west of Highway 4 to Coon Rapids are closed. Water still rising in northern Bagley, backing up from Mosquito Creek. Springbrook State Park has been evacuated.
July 2008FloodBayard$100,000Nearly the entire county was inundated with water. Multiple roads washed out and cars stranded in standing water and ditches. Highway 25 was closed near Bayard due to high water.
April 2001Tornado (F1)Bayard$60,000Tracked through mostly open area southeast of Bayard and destroyed a barn.
September 2015Flash FloodBayard$50,000Emergency Manager reported water flowing over Highway 141 east of Bayard between Maple and Locust Avenues.
September 2015Flash FloodBayard$50,000Iowa DOT reported Highway 25 closed due to flooding near Bayard with detour routing traffic around town.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Bayard$50,000Tornado was on the ground briefly, but took the roof off of a building and blew it westward.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBayard$50,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBayard$25,000Public estimated wind gusts.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBayard$25,000Power was out in town with fires caused by limbs on power lines.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBayard$20,000Emergency manager reported power lines down in town along with 4 to 6 inch tree limbs. Time estimated from radar.
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Bayard$20,000An aerial survey showed a 3/4 mile long track embedded in west to east outflow. A 50 yard wide track damaged corn was observed. It also downed a dozen trees at a farmstead. A few shingles were blown off the house otherwise no building damage. The strength was EF0.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBayard$15,000Four to ten inch diameter tree branches down.
September 2015Flash FloodBayard$10,000Emergency Manager reported Highway 25 underpass flooded in the town of Bayard.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBayard$10,000Power lines were blown down by thunderstorms winds. Ten inch diameter tree limbs blown down to the ground onto power lines. Ten to Twelve inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
May 2013Flash FloodBayard$10,000Highway 25 railroad underpass flooded. Highway has been closed.
July 2000HailBayard$5,000no account filed
July 1999HailBayard$5,000no account filed
July 1999HailBayard$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailBayard$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailBayard$3,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBayard$1,000Sweet corn was completely blown over with small branches down.
June 2008HailBayard$1,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBayard-Bayard Fire Department reported gust of 70 mph.
July 2017HailBayard-Local fire department reported nickel sized hail.
July 2017HailBayard-Local fire department reported quarter size hail that started around 7 pm.
June 2015Flash FloodBayard-Emergency Manager reported flooding within the town of Bayard.
June 2015HailBayard-no account filed
June 2015HailBayard-no account filed
June 2013HailBayard-no account filed
June 2011HailBayard-no account filed
June 2010FloodBayard-no account filed
August 2009HailBayard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Bagley6.8 miles10
Wichita8.5 miles9
Fanslers8.9 miles11
Herndon11.1 miles10
Yale11.8 miles10
Guthrie Center12.4 miles9
Lake Panorama13.2 miles11
Jamaica13.2 miles10

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 BayardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933769The 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 454394. 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.