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.
Population over time
2 figuresCleghorn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 240 | |
| 2020 | 240 | 0 (0%) |
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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Cleghorn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Storm Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 206 FALCON, IA |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | SEC. 27 - CHEROKEE COUNTY, IA |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | APPROX 12 SOUTH AND 1 EAST OF MARCUS, IA |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | A 63 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm winds downed large trees on a farmstead. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Cleghorn | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | Hail 1.5 inches in diamater fell in Cleghorn. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | A roof was removed from part of a farm outbuilding by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | A power line was knocked down by thunderstorm wind. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a one foot diameter tree snapped. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and building damage. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | Large hail damaged crops. The amount of damage was not known. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleghorn | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Cleghorn | - | 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.
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 Cleghorn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933687 | 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 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.




