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Coburg, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51566. The Survey maps it on the Coburg quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Coburg within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Coburg fell from 42 to 26 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
201042
202026-16 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Coburg between 2009 and 2014, burning about 104 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2014Smoking4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Coburg: 7 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
Coburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Essex PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milo Foy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Red Oak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coburg in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Coburg-Emergency management drone imagery showed evidence of a short-lived tornado track through fields in this area, damaging trees along a fenceline and near a home. Peak estimated winds in this tornado were 75 miles per hour, with a maximum width measured at 40 yards. The average width of this tornado was estimated to be 40 yards as well.
July 2024HailCoburg-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCoburg-Shingles blown off homes and small tree limbs blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCoburg-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph tore the door off of a barn.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Coburg-This tornado was also caught on film by the same chaser that filmed the tornado by Essex Iowa. This tornado was on the ground for around 8 miles.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCoburg-Thunderstorm winds blew trees down across a road east of Coburg.
April 2012HailCoburg-no account filed
May 2009HailCoburg-no account filed
June 2008HailCoburg-no account filed
June 2006HailCoburg-no account filed
April 1999HailCoburg-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCoburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Red Oak6.7 miles9
Hawthorne7.0 miles9
McPherson7.5 miles9
Stanton9.6 miles8
Frankfort (historical)10.5 miles9
Stennett12.4 miles9
Clarinda Junction (historical)14.0 miles8
Wales14.2 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 CoburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1808351The 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 455506. 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.