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Beaman, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50609. The Survey maps it on the Conrad East quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Beaman within Grundy County

Population over time

2 figures

Beaman fell from 191 to 161 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
2010191
2020161-30 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Beaman between 2009 and 2011, burning about 144 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
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT 28, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grundy County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beaman: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Conrad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gladbrook Brick and Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Lamken PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grundy County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaman in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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
May 2001Tornado (F2)Beaman$35,000Tornado dropped down north of Beaman and progressed southeast. Crossed into Tama County from Grundy County. Most of the track was through open country.
May 2001HailBeaman$20,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaman$10,000Large tree blow down onto a house.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBeaman$10,000no account filed
May 2008HailBeaman$3,000Nickel size hail was reported between Conrad and Beaman.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBeaman$3,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBeaman$2,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBeaman$2,000no account filed
April 2008HailBeaman$1,000no account filed
June 2025Heavy RainBeaman-Total rainfall of 3.06 inches since midnight at mesonet station GW1032 Beaman.
October 2021Funnel CloudBeaman-Public report of a funnel cloud.
June 2020Heavy RainBeaman-Public report of 5.03 inches of rain since midnight.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaman-Wind gust estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2022Funnel CloudBeaman-no account filed
June 2008HailBeaman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grundy 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
Conrad2.7 miles11
Grundy Center10.2 miles9
Ivester10.5 miles9
Morrison11.7 miles9
Holland12.4 miles9
Reinbeck13.9 miles9
Lincoln16.7 miles9
Wellsburg17.6 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 BeamanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934063The 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 454401. 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.