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Climbing Hill, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51015. The Survey maps it on the Climbing Hill quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Climbing Hill within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Climbing Hill grew from 97 to 97 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
201097
2020970 (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

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Climbing Hill between 2009 and 2018, burning about 177 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2

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
18 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources3 MILES W OF CLIMBING HILL, IOWA
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesMOVILLE
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Smoking15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Climbing Hill: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climbing Hill in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 19 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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
October 2013Tornado (EF4)Climbing Hill$2,000,000A tornado severely damaged or destroyed about 10 houses, collapsing most walls on a few of the houses, tearing most of the roofs off other houses, and shifting what was left of some houses off their foundations. The tornado caused significant damage to roofs, windows, and siding of additional houses. Numerous farm outbuildings, storage buildings, and a few silos were destroyed or severely damaged. The tornado also destroyed or damaged several pieces of farm equipment, caused significant tree damage, including numerous trunks snapped or uprooted and other trees stripped, and blew down power poles and lines. The tornado then crossed into Cherokee County.
May 1998HailClimbing Hill$1,400,000no account filed
July 2003HailClimbing Hill$200,000Large hail severely damaged crops over a 2 to 4 mile wide area from Climbing Hill southeast to Smithland, with the area reaching north to near Oto. Vehicles, siding, and windows were also damaged. The amount of crop damage was not known.
April 1994HailClimbing Hill$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailClimbing Hill$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill$5,000no account filed
July 1995Tornado (F0)Climbing Hill$3,000A small tornado observed by rural electric personnel blew down three to sex inch diameter trees and tore down limbs and branches from larger trees, damaged lawn furniture, and blew down part of a corn crop.
March 2019FloodClimbing Hill-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 1.74 inches near Holly Springs) resulted in significant flooding of agricultural lands, along with Grundy Avenue, 300th and 310th Streets. The town of Hornick was evacuated when the levees were overtopped by water. The West Fork Ditch of the Little Sioux River near Hornick (gage site HOKI4) reached the highest stage on record cresting 6.60 feet above flood stage on March 14.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill-Branches downed.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, blew down power lines, and blew out windows at a bank.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down.
August 2015FloodClimbing Hill-Flooding of the West Fork Little Sioux River caused flooding of farmland and a few roads. The river crested at 1.93 feet above flood stage near Moville on August 18th.
August 2015FloodClimbing Hill-Flooding of the West Fork Ditch caused flooding of farmland and a few roads. The river crested at 3.7 feet above flood stage near Hornick on August 18th.
July 2012HailClimbing Hill-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Climbing Hill-A tornado caused tree damage along a five mile long path.
June 2002Flash FloodClimbing Hill-Heavy rain flooded several roads and fields.
June 2017HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2012HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2012HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2012HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2012HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2012HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
May 2011HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
May 2009HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
May 2009HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
July 2008HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 2008HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
May 2001HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
May 2001HailClimbing Hill-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindClimbing Hill-no account filed
July 1996HailClimbing Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Holly Springs4.9 miles9
Owego5.9 miles9
Hornick7.7 miles9
Luton7.9 miles9
Lucky Valley (historical)8.0 miles8
Bronson8.6 miles9
Moville10.2 miles9
Oto10.6 miles8

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 Climbing HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3731441The 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 455477. 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.