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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.

Corley within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Corley 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.

YearPeople Change
201026
202031+5 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2009

Regional 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Corley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harlan Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCorley-KHNR AWOS measured thunderstorm wind gust of 68 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCorley-Harlan Airport AWOS measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCorley-Harlan Airport AWOS measured a wind gust of 56 kts.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCorley-Wind gusts ranged 60 to 65 mph. Six cottonwood trees were damaged near Nisha Bend Recreation Area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCorley-Garage doors were blown in on a new house.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCorley-Trees were blown down onto a camper a Nisha Bend Recreation Area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCorley-A 65 mph wind gust was measured at Harlan airport.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCorley-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 2017Thunderstorm WindCorley-Winds gusted to 62 mph at the AWOS weather station at Harlan Airport.
July 2019HailCorley-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCorley-no account filed
November 2015Thunderstorm WindCorley-no account filed
April 2010HailCorley-no account filed
June 2008HailCorley-no account filed
July 2003HailCorley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Harlan5.1 miles8
Tennant6.0 miles8
Shelby7.7 miles8
Westphalia10.3 miles8
Jacksonville10.6 miles8
Rorbeck10.6 miles8
Kirkman10.9 miles8
Portsmouth11.1 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 CorleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5788572The 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.