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.
Population over time
2 figuresClimbing 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 97 | |
| 2020 | 97 | 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Climbing Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3 MILES W OF CLIMBING HILL, IOWA |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | MOVILLE |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Smoking | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
33 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Tornado (EF4) | Climbing Hill | $2,000,000 | A 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 1998 | Hail | Climbing Hill | $1,400,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Climbing Hill | $200,000 | Large 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 1994 | Hail | Climbing Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Climbing Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Climbing Hill | $3,000 | A 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 2019 | Flood | Climbing 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | - | Branches downed. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, blew down power lines, and blew out windows at a bank. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down. |
| August 2015 | Flood | Climbing 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 2015 | Flood | Climbing 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 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Climbing Hill | - | A tornado caused tree damage along a five mile long path. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Climbing Hill | - | Heavy rain flooded several roads and fields. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climbing Hill | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Climbing Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Owego | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hornick | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Luton | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lucky Valley (historical) | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bronson | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Moville | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Oto | 10.6 miles | 8 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3731441 | 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 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.




