BlockCoulter, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50431. The Survey maps it on the Coulter quadrangle. 219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCoulter fell from 281 to 219 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 | 281 | |
| 2020 | 219 | -62 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Coulter quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
11 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coulter in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulter | $50,000 | Approximately 20 large trees were downed in town. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulter | $30,000 | Two semis were blown off of Interstate 35. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Coulter | $20,000 | Bridge closed on Indigo Ave just south of 110th St due to creek out of its banks. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulter | $20,000 | Semi blown over on I-35 at mile post 164. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulter | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Coulter | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Coulter | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Coulter | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Coulter | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulter | - | Trained spotter reported 60 mph wind gusts near Latimer and Coulter. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Coulter | - | Brief tornado touchdown in open fields. |
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 Coulter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1934050 | 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 455671. 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.
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.