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Bondurant, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50035. The Survey maps it on the Altoona quadrangle. 7,365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Bondurant within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Bondurant grew from 3,860 to 7,365 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
20103,860
20207,365+3,505 (+91%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bondurant between 2007 and 2017, burning about 53 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/undetermined6

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
5 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources6570 NE 102ND AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

43 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bondurant in 43 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 9 heavy rain, 4 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
July 2018Tornado (EF2)Bondurant$250,000The tornado developed about a mile and a half west of Bondurant. The tornado initially traveled through agricultural fields. The tornado entered western Bondurant and produced EF2 damage to a house on the western side of town. The tornado weakened as it moved east through town with only EF0 damage on the east side of the community. The tornado entered an agricultural field on the east side of town before dissipating.
June 2015LightningBondurant$200,000Lightning struck a house in the early morning hours starting a fire in the garage and was soon fully engulfed in flames. The house was in a rural area of Polk County. The development also had no fire hydrants.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBondurant$150,000no account filed
May 2013FloodBondurant$100,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBondurant$50,000Shingles blown off roofs of several houses with 12 to 18 inch diameter tree snapped in half. Many 4 to 8 inch branches blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBondurant$30,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBondurant$30,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBondurant$25,000Reports of a roof blown off of a house and barn at 2nd St. and NE 80th east of Bondurant were received.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBondurant$25,000Trees up to 3 feet in diameter fell on a house.
June 2012LightningBondurant$20,000Lightning struck a house in town, setting it on fire.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBondurant$15,000Power poles down or at a 45 degree angle. A 24 inch diameter tree was blown down.
April 2002Tornado (F1)Bondurant$15,000Tornado tracked over open country for the most part. Some outbuildings were damaged, along with power lines.
September 2018HailBondurant$10,000Public reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBondurant$10,000Power poles blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBondurant$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBondurant$7,000Several large tree limbs down in town and small trees less than 6 inches in diameter. Some shingle damage. A microburst occurred over the northwest side of town.
September 2018HailBondurant$5,000Public reported golf ball sized hail via the mPING app. Time estimated from radar.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBondurant$5,000Public estimated winds of 60 MPH.
June 2009HailBondurant$5,000Amateur Radio operator reported one inch diameter hail at the intersection of northeast 78th and Highway 65 in Bondurant.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBondurant$5,000High winds and pea hail.
April 2004HailBondurant$5,000no account filed
April 2003HailBondurant$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailBondurant$3,000Quarter size hail was reported by a HAM radio operator 4 miles north of Bondurant and 5 miles east of Ankeny.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBondurant$3,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBondurant$2,000Small tree branches blown down.
May 2025HailBondurant-Report relayed by broadcast media. Delayed report, time estimated by radar.
June 2021Funnel CloudBondurant-Polk country dispatch replayed a report of funnel cloud.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBondurant-Trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines down. Time estimated.
October 2019Heavy RainBondurant-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.14 inches over the past 24 hours.
September 2019Tornado (EFU)Bondurant-The tornado was suggested by a TDS observed on radar and subsequently confirmed via high resolution satellite data. The tornado remained in either wooded areas or open cropland with no damage noted, therefore the EF-U rating.
June 2018Heavy RainBondurant-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.17 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018HailBondurant-Public reported brief penny sized hail.
June 2017HailBondurant-Public reported half dollar sized hail.
June 2016Heavy RainBondurant-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.15 inches this morning. Times radar estimated.
September 2016Heavy RainBondurant-CoCoRaHS observer measured heavy rainfall of 2.39 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2015Heavy RainBondurant-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.26 inches over the last 24 hours. Coop observer station Bondurant BONI4.
June 2015Heavy RainBondurant-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.88 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2014Heavy RainBondurant-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 2.30 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainBondurant-Rainfall in the past 24 hours was 2.68 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainBondurant-Rainfall of 3.14 inches in the past 24 hours.
April 2004HailBondurant-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBondurant-no account filed
May 1997Tornado (F0)Bondurant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Altoona3.9 miles12
Quilhart (historical)3.9 miles16
Enterprise4.2 miles16
White Oak4.2 miles16
Santiago4.7 miles11
Berwick5.0 miles16
Capitol Heights5.6 miles16
Mitchellville6.0 miles11

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 BondurantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1947638The 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 454745. 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.