Corley, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51537. The Survey maps it on the Corley quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresCorley grew from 26 to 31 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 | 26 | |
| 2020 | 31 | +5 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Corley quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Corley between 2009 and 2017, burning about 126 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 120 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 Corley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corley Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Harlan Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corley in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | KHNR AWOS measured thunderstorm wind gust of 68 mph. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Harlan Airport AWOS measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Harlan Airport AWOS measured a wind gust of 56 kts. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Wind gusts ranged 60 to 65 mph. Six cottonwood trees were damaged near Nisha Bend Recreation Area. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Garage doors were blown in on a new house. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Trees were blown down onto a camper a Nisha Bend Recreation Area. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | A 65 mph wind gust was measured at Harlan airport. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | A 1200 yard wide swath of damaging thunderstorm winds began 2.75 miles northwest of Walnut near the Pottawattamie-Shelby County line . Winds were estimated to be as high as 90 mph. Severely damaged or destroyed sheds and barns occurred. Some large trees were snapped. The wind damage ended approximately 9 miles southeast of Harlan. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | Winds gusted to 62 mph at the AWOS weather station at Harlan Airport. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Corley | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corley | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Corley | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Corley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Corley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlan | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Tennant | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Shelby | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Westphalia | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Jacksonville | 10.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rorbeck | 10.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kirkman | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Portsmouth | 11.1 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 Corley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5788572 | 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 455627. 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.




