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Bennett, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Inland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52721. The Survey maps it on the Bennett quadrangle. 347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Bennett within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Bennett fell from 405 to 347 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
2010405
2020347-58 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bennett between 2009 and 2015, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning1
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
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

17 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennett in 17 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 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
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Bennett$100,000Tornado was rated EF-1 with peak winds of 110 MPH, a path length of 5.33 miles and max width 100 yards. A tornado touched down southwest of Bennett and tracked northeast to near Wheatland. A farm just north of Bennett sustained the greatest damage where all of the outbuildings and most of the trees were destroyed. Elsewhere along the path, damage occurred to trees, outbuildings, and power lines. This tornado continued into Clinton County.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBennett$4,000Large trees down across a road blocking traffic with several trees down on adjacent property.
May 2024HailBennett-Public report of golf ball size hail. Time estimated from radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBennett-A roof was blown off a one story home. Debris blown across highway 130 to the north.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBennett-A report of 15 trees blown over was received. Time estimated from radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBennett-Up to 15 utility poles blown down. and a few snapped.
October 2023HailBennett-Nickel size hail was reported at Bennett Park.
May 2018HailBennett-A public report of hail up to the size of 1 inch in diameter.
May 2018HailBennett-A public report of hail of to the size of 1 inch in diameter.
May 2018HailBennett-A public report of hail up to the size of 1 inch in diameter was received along with small branches of 1 inch in diameter and about an inch of rain.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBennett-A COOP observer estimated wind gusts up to 70 mph.
April 2015HailBennett-The public reported that pea to quarter sized hail fell near Bennett Iowa around 155 AM CDT. The report was delayed and relayed by a Cooperative Observer. The time that the event occurred was estimated using radar.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBennett-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 65 mph.
August 2011HailBennett-Dime to nickel sized hail fell.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBennett-Winds estimated to be 60 mph blew down a tree. Time estimated.|
May 2006Heavy RainBennett-Near Bennett; lots of ponding of water in fields with roadside ditches full; estimated 1.5 to 2 inches of rain.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBennett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Ayresville4.4 miles14
Sunbury5.4 miles15
Tipton8.4 miles12
Lime City8.4 miles14
Lowden8.4 miles15
Durant10.3 miles15
Wald10.8 miles12
Rochester10.8 miles12

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 BennettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q628777The 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 454511. 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.