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Bloomfield, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bloomfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 52537. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield North quadrangle. 2,682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

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Bloomfield within Davis County

On record in Bloomfield

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomfield grew from 2,640 to 2,682 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
20102,640
20202,682+42 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 2006 and 2020, burning about 527 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3

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
11 September 2017Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2017Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2020Debris and open burning75 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burning51 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burning67 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 63 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 25 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$1,000,000KMEM Radio reported that the Davis County Courthouse and several businesses had shattered windows and a local high school had a partial roof collapse. Damage was caused by combination of wind and hail.
April 1999Tornado (F3)Bloomfield$550,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$150,000no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodBloomfield$150,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$100,000Public report of trees and power lines down and traffic light bent within the city of Bloomfield. Also observed pea to quarter sized hail.
July 2008Flash FloodBloomfield$75,000One to three feet of water covered the streets.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$75,000no account filed
May 1998FloodBloomfield$50,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$30,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$25,000A few large trees, between 12 and 18 inches in diameter, were blown down along with several large tree limbs of 6 to 10 inch diameter, throughout the town of Bloomfield.
June 2009HailBloomfield$25,000no account filed
July 2006HailBloomfield$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$25,000no account filed
September 2001HailBloomfield$25,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$15,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000no account filed
March 2007HailBloomfield$10,000no account filed
July 2007LightningBloomfield$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000no account filed
May 2001HailBloomfield$10,000no account filed
May 2001HailBloomfield$10,000no account filed
May 2001HailBloomfield$10,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000no account filed
May 2001HailBloomfield$7,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$5,000Trained spotter reported telephone pole down/on ground.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$5,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$5,000no account filed
March 2007HailBloomfield$5,000no account filed
June 2007HailBloomfield$5,000no account filed
July 2006HailBloomfield$5,000no account filed
September 2001HailBloomfield$5,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailBloomfield$3,000no account filed
June 2006HailBloomfield$3,000no account filed
July 2006HailBloomfield$3,000no account filed
May 1998HailBloomfield$3,000no account filed
April 2006HailBloomfield$2,000no account filed
March 2006HailBloomfield$2,000no account filed
April 2006HailBloomfield$2,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$2,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$2,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$2,000no account filed
September 2001HailBloomfield$2,000no account filed
September 2000HailBloomfield$2,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$1,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailBloomfield-Delayed report of hail at the airport. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019HailBloomfield-Public reported quarter sized hail and heavy rainfall.
September 2019Flash FloodBloomfield-Law enforcement reported water over Highway 63 north of Bloomfield. Power was also reported out across Bloomfield. Time estimated.
August 2016Heavy RainBloomfield-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 1.91 inches, with most since 4:30am.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Trained spotter reported wind gust.
June 2015Heavy RainBloomfield-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.23 inches over the last 24 hours.
November 2015Heavy RainBloomfield-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.01 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2013Heavy RainBloomfield-Rainfall of 2.04 inches in past two days, 1.90 in the past 24 hours.
October 2013Heavy RainBloomfield-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.06 inches.
October 2012Heavy RainBloomfield-Coop reported 3.40 inches of rain. Was 48 hour total, but very little fell before Saturday morning.
July 2009Heavy RainBloomfield-Standing water was reported in fields across Davis County. Two feet of ponded waster was reported across old Highway 2 in Bloomfield.
July 2008Heavy RainBloomfield-Rainfall from the overnight storms was 6.9 inches.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Bloomfield-Brief tornado touchdown in open fields.

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Steuben2.4 miles8
Drakesville4.8 miles10
Belknap4.8 miles10
Pleasant View (historical)5.4 miles10
Dunnville (historical)5.6 miles10
Shunem6.5 miles10
West Grove7.9 miles7
Mark8.1 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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914630The 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 454700. 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.