Carson, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51525. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. 766 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarson fell from 812 to 766 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 812 | |
| 2020 | 766 | -46 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Carson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carson in 2009, burning about 5 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Carson: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| K and S Qurry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Macedonia | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| North Macedonia | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| South Macedonia | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Carson | $110,000 | This tornado was caught on film by a storm chaser. Two large barns and an outbuilding were destroyed, and a roof was taken off of a house. From the same mini-supercell that first produced a tornado near Emerson, Iowa. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | Emergency manager reported power lines down and power out in town. There was structural damage to one business with debris in the streets. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Carson | - | Public reported 2.75-inch hail. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | Public reported a machine shed destroyed. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Carson | - | Public reported tennis ball size hail with pictures via social media. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 60 mph downed some 2 to 3 inch in diameter tree limbs. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached at least 60 mph. The storm was accompanied by pea-size hail. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Carson | - | The hail was very soft and mushy. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | A storm chaser estimated that thunderstorm winds gusted to 70 mph southeast of Carson. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Carson | - | Low pressure moved across central Nebraska as its associated warm front remained nearly stationary over eastern Nebraska. An upper level shortwave, unstable atmosphere, and cool low level temperatures combined to yield scattered thunderstorms that produced mainly large hail from near Gretna, across the Omaha/Council Bluffs Metropolitan area, east to Treynor, Iowa. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macedonia | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Oakland | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Taylor | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Iola (historical) | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Kemling (historical) | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Treynor | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hancock | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| York Center | 12.1 miles | 11 |
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 Carson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q742742 | The 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 455186. 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.




