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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.

Corydon within Wayne County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Corydon 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,585
20201,526-59 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4

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
13 April 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 December 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesALLERTON FD
8 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1773 120TH, IA
28 January 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Flash FloodCorydon$150,000Three feet of water was reported running over over county J22 east of Millerton.
August 2004LightningCorydon$50,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCorydon$40,000A 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 1997FloodCorydon$25,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindCorydon$20,000Emergency manager in Wayne county reported a pole barn downed from strong winds. Time and location estimated from radar. Delayed report.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCorydon$20,000Several trees down, plate glass windows blown out and trees onto homes. Power lines also blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCorydon$20,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCorydon$15,000Several 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCorydon$15,000Winds were reported from KCCI TV schoolnet site.
July 2004Flash FloodCorydon$15,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCorydon$10,000Large trees were blown over into the road in south Corydon.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCorydon$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCorydon$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCorydon$5,000Emergency Manager reported 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindCorydon$5,000Public reported a large pine tree snapped. Time estimated by radar.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCorydon$5,000no account filed
June 2005HailCorydon$5,000no account filed
June 2005Flash FloodCorydon$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCorydon$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCorydon$5,000no account filed
July 2013HailCorydon$3,000Nickel to quarter size hail fell for 7.5 minutes. Hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches in parts of the city.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCorydon$3,000no account filed
June 1998HailCorydon$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCorydon$2,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCorydon$2,000no account filed
June 2000Tornado (F0)Corydon$1,000Brief touchdown
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCorydon-Several trees and power lines down. Time estimated by radar.
September 2019Heavy RainCorydon-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.70 inches over the last 24 hours.
November 2015Heavy RainCorydon-Mesonet station reported heavy rainfall of 1.51 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2014Heavy RainCorydon-Rainfall of 4.25 inches reported via Facebook.
April 2013Heavy RainCorydon-Overnight total 2.50 inches.
June 2008Heavy RainCorydon-Two inches of rain was reported.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Peoria3.5 miles12
Allerton4.3 miles7
Bridgeport4.6 miles11
Harvard5.3 miles7
Millerton6.4 miles12
Ovia6.8 miles12
Hodge6.9 miles7
Cambria7.1 miles12

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 CorydonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903373The 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.