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Churdan, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50050. The Survey maps it on the Churdan quadrangle. 365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Churdan within Greene County

On record in Churdan

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

Churdan fell from 386 to 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
2010386
2020365-21 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Churdan between 2006 and 2013, burning about 98 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources414 140TH ST., CHURDAN, IA
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSE CORNER OF BRISTOL TWP, SEC 7, 800 BLOCK OF H AV
26 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 December 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources110 I AVE, IA
6 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources830 I AVE, CHURDAN, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Churdan in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 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
April 2007FloodChurdan$250,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChurdan$50,000no account filed
June 2014HailChurdan$15,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindChurdan$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindChurdan$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindChurdan$10,000no account filed
August 2004HailChurdan$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailChurdan$10,000no account filed
September 2012HailChurdan$5,000Some hailstones were possibly larger.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChurdan$5,000High winds downed trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindChurdan$5,000Large trees were downed along with pea size hail and heavy rain falling.
April 2004HailChurdan$5,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindChurdan$5,000no account filed
April 2013HailChurdan$3,000Hail fell along Highway 4.
September 2012HailChurdan$3,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindChurdan$3,000no account filed
June 2005HailChurdan$2,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindChurdan$2,000no account filed
August 2004HailChurdan$2,000no account filed
March 2017HailChurdan$1,000Public reported quarter to half dollar sized hail via social media.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Churdan$1,000Tornado traveled northeast through Greene county in rural areas. The tornado did some tree damage to a farmstead but otherwise only produced crop damage before moving into Webster county. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 2008HailChurdan$1,000no account filed
May 2023HailChurdan-Nickel sized hail. Reports of tree limbs of unknown size down in town.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindChurdan-Delayed report of tree damage south of Churdan. Damage consisted of broken branches a couple inches thick. Report relayed via social media and time estimated via radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChurdan-A trained spotter reported 70 mph wind gusts with debris on roads.
April 2018HailChurdan-Trained spotter reported up to quarter sized hail and that it was starting to cover the ground.
August 2018Heavy RainChurdan-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.55 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainChurdan-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.68 inches over the last 48 hours.
May 2016Heavy RainChurdan-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 1.50 inches since about 9am.
September 2015Heavy RainChurdan-CoCoRaHS report of heavy rainfall storm total of 2.33 inches. End time estimated by radar.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindChurdan-Miso-vortex with a slightly broader circulation and longer path. Produced minor to moderate crop damage. Damage was found and documented using high resolution satellite imagery.
April 2013Heavy RainChurdan-Approximately 5 inches of rain from the storm, 2 inches in the last 24 hours.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindChurdan-Trained spotter estimated gust.
May 2011HailChurdan-Public reported brief period of nickel size hail with a prolonged period of smaller hail.
May 2011HailChurdan-Public reported pea to nickel size hail fell for 5 minutes.
May 2004HailChurdan-no account filed
August 2004HailChurdan-no account filed
August 2004HailChurdan-no account filed
April 1998Tornado (F0)Churdan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Adaza3.2 miles9
Farlin5.4 miles9
Scranton9.7 miles8
Jefferson10.7 miles9
Gravel Pit11.2 miles9
Paton11.6 miles9
Dana12.8 miles11
Winkelmans14.4 miles10

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 ChurdanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933711The 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 455414. 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.