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Conrad, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50621. The Survey maps it on the Conrad East quadrangle. 1,093 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Conrad within Grundy County

Population over time

2 figures

Conrad fell from 1,108 to 1,093 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
20101,108
20201,093-15 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Conrad between 2009 and 2011, burning about 144 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/undetermined4

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
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT 28, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grundy 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 Conrad: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Conrad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lamken PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grundy County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conrad in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 9 heavy rain, 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 2001Tornado (F2)Conrad$150,000Most in open country. One barn hit and destroyed.
May 2001Tornado (F1)Conrad$50,000Tornado was only on the ground briefly, but it did hit a house causing structural damage to it.
April 1994HailConrad$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindConrad$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindConrad$50,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindConrad$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindConrad$40,000no account filed
May 2001HailConrad$30,000no account filed
April 2006HailConrad$20,000no account filed
April 2006HailConrad$15,000no account filed
April 2006HailConrad$15,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindConrad$10,000Nickel size hail reported as well.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindConrad$10,000no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindConrad$5,000Trained spotter reported tree damage around Conrad, as well as a couple power lines down. Time estimated from radar.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindConrad$5,000Trees of 18 inch diameter were snapped in Conrad.
May 2001HailConrad$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailConrad$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindConrad$5,000no account filed
April 1994HailConrad$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindConrad$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailConrad$3,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindConrad$2,000A large tree snapped in half by high winds.
June 2010HailConrad$2,000no account filed
June 2008HailConrad$1,000no account filed
May 2000HailConrad$1,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindConrad-Delayed report of branches downed around town along with one large older tree. Time estimated via radar.
August 2021Heavy RainConrad-A 24 hour rain total of 2.50 inches.
October 2021Funnel CloudConrad-Marshall County sheriff received a public report of a very thin funnel cloud near Conrad.
June 2020FloodConrad-Public reported 1.3 inches of rain with localized street flooding in the town of Conrad.
June 2020Heavy RainConrad-Public weather station measured 2.07 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar. Rain ongoing at observation time.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindConrad-Public reported up to 65 mph wind gusts along with pea sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainConrad-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.14 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2018HailConrad-Trained spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail from about 5:40 pm to 5:50 pm with winds gusting between 30 and 40 mph.
September 2016Heavy RainConrad-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.05 inches.
July 2015Heavy RainConrad-Coop observer reported 1.75 inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
August 2015Heavy RainConrad-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.20 inches event total.
December 2015Heavy RainConrad-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 5.35 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
April 2013Heavy RainConrad-Rainfall 1.97 inches.
April 2009Heavy RainConrad-Rainfall of 3.51 inches in past 24 hours.
June 2007Funnel CloudConrad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grundy 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
Beaman2.7 miles11
Ivester8.7 miles9
Grundy Center11.0 miles9
Holland12.6 miles9
Morrison13.5 miles9
Reinbeck16.1 miles9
Wellsburg16.5 miles9
Lincoln18.0 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 ConradAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q657633The 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 455577. 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.