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Cleghorn, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51014. The Survey maps it on the Cleghorn quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.

Cleghorn within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Cleghorn grew from 240 to 240 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
2010240
20202400 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cleghorn between 2006 and 2015, burning about 418 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources206 FALCON, IA
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSEC. 27 - CHEROKEE COUNTY, IA
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesAPPROX 12 SOUTH AND 1 EAST OF MARCUS, IA
20 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cleghorn: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleghorn in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 flood. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCleghorn$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused power line and tree damage, including a 30 to 40 foot tall tree snapped at its base. Corn was flattened, but the amount of crop damage was not determined.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCleghorn$50,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-A 63 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm winds downed large trees on a farmstead.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
June 2024FloodCleghorn-Mill Creek near Larrabee rose above flood stage the morning of June 22nd, cresting around 9.1 feet above flood stage (1250.1 feet) on June 22nd. This crest is in the Moderate Stage. The creek then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 23rd. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Cherokee County.
April 2023HailCleghorn-Hail 1.5 inches in diamater fell in Cleghorn.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-A roof was removed from part of a farm outbuilding by thunderstorm winds.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-A power line was knocked down by thunderstorm wind.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a one foot diameter tree snapped.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and building damage.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down.
July 2004HailCleghorn-Large hail damaged crops. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2024HailCleghorn-no account filed
June 2020HailCleghorn-no account filed
September 2019HailCleghorn-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-no account filed
May 2008HailCleghorn-no account filed
May 2005HailCleghorn-no account filed
May 2005HailCleghorn-no account filed
July 2004HailCleghorn-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-no account filed
June 2004HailCleghorn-no account filed
September 2004HailCleghorn-no account filed
July 2003HailCleghorn-no account filed
May 2001HailCleghorn-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCleghorn-no account filed
August 2000HailCleghorn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Meriden4.3 miles9
Marcus5.1 miles9
Mary Hill5.4 miles9
Larrabee9.5 miles9
Cherokee9.6 miles9
Onawa Junction10.2 miles9
Fielding11.3 miles9
Quimby13.1 miles9

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 CleghornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933687The 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 455470. 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.