Corydon, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Corydon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50060. The Survey maps it on the Corydon quadrangle. 1,526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.
On record in Corydon
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
W. H. Tedford Houselisted 1979- Hotel Realisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresCorydon fell from 1,585 to 1,526 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 | 1,585 | |
| 2020 | 1,526 | -59 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1934 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Humeston quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Corydon between 2009 and 2019, burning about 20 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 December 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | ALLERTON FD |
| 8 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1773 120TH, IA |
| 28 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corydon in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 hail, 3 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $150,000 | Three feet of water was reported running over over county J22 east of Millerton. |
| August 2004 | Lightning | Corydon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $40,000 | A 4 foot diameter tree uprooted, along with several 10 to 20 inch tree limbs being blown down. This included many hard wood trees down in the town of Corydon. One house had several shingles and a half sheet of plywood blown off at the chimney and one large tree down. |
| July 1997 | Flood | Corydon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | Emergency manager in Wayne county reported a pole barn downed from strong winds. Time and location estimated from radar. Delayed report. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | Several trees down, plate glass windows blown out and trees onto homes. Power lines also blown down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $15,000 | Several 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs were down, along with power lines down. Some power outages were reported in the town of Corydon. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $15,000 | Winds were reported from KCCI TV schoolnet site. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | Large trees were blown over into the road in south Corydon. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | Emergency Manager reported 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | Public reported a large pine tree snapped. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Corydon | $3,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail fell for 7.5 minutes. Hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches in parts of the city. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Corydon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Corydon | $1,000 | Brief touchdown |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | - | Several trees and power lines down. Time estimated by radar. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.70 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2015 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Mesonet station reported heavy rainfall of 1.51 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Rainfall of 4.25 inches reported via Facebook. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Overnight total 2.50 inches. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Two inches of rain was reported. |
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.
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 Corydon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1903373 | 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 455647. 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.
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.







