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Bussey, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50044. The Survey maps it on the Lovilia quadrangle. 387 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Bussey within Marion County

On record in Bussey

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bussey fell from 422 to 387 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
2010422
2020387-35 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bussey between 2006 and 2017, burning about 40 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
9 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2014Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bussey: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Bellefountain PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Groenendyk Mcconville Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownFlagstonePast Producer
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
OccurrenceZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bussey in 59 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 37 flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 6 heavy rain. 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 2008FloodBussey$500,000no account filed
June 2015FloodBussey$100,000Cedar Creek at Bussey crested at 31.19 feet at 4:00 PM CST on 25 June.
July 2015Flash FloodBussey$100,000A road was damaged from floodwaters.
June 2011FloodBussey$100,000no account filed
July 2010FloodBussey$100,000no account filed
June 2010FloodBussey$75,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBussey$50,000A garage was damaged and the roof taken off of a house. Reported by KCCI TV.
April 2010FloodBussey$50,000no account filed
May 2010FloodBussey$50,000no account filed
August 2010FloodBussey$50,000no account filed
July 2008FloodBussey$50,000no account filed
May 2011FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
June 2011FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
March 2010FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
March 2010FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
June 2010FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
March 2009FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
April 2007FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
August 2007FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
May 2007FloodBussey$25,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBussey$20,000no account filed
April 2008FloodBussey$15,000no account filed
May 2019HailBussey$10,000Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail.
April 2013FloodBussey$10,000Highway G71 was closed due to high water over the road from the Cedar Creek near Bussey.
February 2011FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
July 2010FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
April 2009FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
May 2009FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
June 2008FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
July 2008FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
July 2008FloodBussey$10,000no account filed
April 2003HailBussey$10,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBussey$5,000Power lines were down east of Bussey near the Mahaska County Border.
May 2010FloodBussey$5,000no account filed
June 2009FloodBussey$5,000no account filed
December 2008FloodBussey$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBussey$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBussey$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailBussey$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBussey$2,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBussey-Estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts with pea sized hail. Power is out.
July 2023HailBussey-Quarter sized hail reported by trained spotter and KNIA/KRLS radio.
June 2020Heavy RainBussey-Public weather station measured 2.25 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar. Rain ongoing at observation time.
September 2019Heavy RainBussey-Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches. Time duration unknown. Set at 24 hours for this report.
August 2016Heavy RainBussey-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 1.95 inches.
June 2015Funnel CloudBussey-Trained spotter noted a funnel cloud with no contact to the ground and was dissipating at the time of the report.
December 2015Heavy RainBussey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainBussey-Rainfall of 3.6 inches this afternoon and evening.
October 2012Heavy RainBussey-Twenty four hour total of 3.02 inches.
May 2023HailBussey-no account filed
May 2015HailBussey-no account filed
January 2010FloodBussey-no account filed
September 2010FloodBussey-no account filed
December 2009FloodBussey-no account filed
August 2009FloodBussey-no account filed
October 2009FloodBussey-no account filed
October 2009FloodBussey-no account filed
September 2008FloodBussey-no account filed
May 2003HailBussey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Hamilton2.7 miles10
Marysville3.9 miles10
Tracy5.0 miles11
Attica7.3 miles10
Indiana7.6 miles10
Pershing7.7 miles11
Harvey8.0 miles11
Durham8.9 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 BusseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922655The 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 455013. 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.