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Craig, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51031. The Survey maps it on the Ireton quadrangle. 79 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.

Craig within Plymouth County

Population over time

2 figures

Craig fell from 89 to 79 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
201089
202079-10 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Craig in 2008, burning about 2 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/undetermined1

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
1 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craig in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 1994HailCraig$50,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCraig$30,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 3 foot diameter trees blown down. Some vehicles were damaged by falling trees.
August 2015FloodCraig-Heavy rainfall of 3 to 7 inches caused areal flooding of farmland, ditches, and several roads.
June 2014Flash FloodCraig-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of two county roads near an intersection, forcing closure of the intersection.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCraig-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew down power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
September 2007HailCraig-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCraig-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
June 2010Funnel CloudCraig-no account filed
September 2007HailCraig-no account filed
May 2004HailCraig-no account filed
April 2004HailCraig-no account filed
June 2002HailCraig-no account filed
August 2002HailCraig-no account filed
May 2000HailCraig-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Craig-no account filed
July 1995HailCraig-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCraig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Mammen3.2 miles9
Struble6.1 miles10
Crathorne6.2 miles9
Brunsville6.3 miles9
Ruble8.0 miles9
West Le Mars8.4 miles10
Parkview Terrace9.5 miles10
Seney9.9 miles10

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 CraigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933807The 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 455692. 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.