Cumberland, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50843. It stands on Pettitts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Massena quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCumberland fell from 262 to 251 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 | 262 | |
| 2020 | 251 | -11 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Massena quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cumberland in 2009, burning about 61 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
43 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cumberland in 43 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $1,100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Cumberland | $250,000 | Several farms had damage to grain bins, out buildings, trees, and powerlines. Track was intermittent. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $50,000 | Water damage was reported to a bridge on County Highway 28 with the highway closed south of Highway 92. Bridge was damaged 3 miles south of Highway 92. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Cumberland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $25,000 | Report of power lines and trees down in Cumberland. One tree on top of a house with moderate roof damage. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cumberland | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cumberland | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $20,000 | A shed was blown down about 1 mile west of Highway 92 and County road N28. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $10,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $10,000 | Spotters reported the top of a chimney was blown off of a house. Small tree limbs down as well. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $10,000 | Tree limbs up to 12 inches in diameter down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Cumberland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Cumberland | $4,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Cumberland | $3,000 | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $3,000 | Four inch tree branches blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $3,000 | Tree limbs blown down by high winds. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cumberland | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $2,000 | Spotter estimated 60 MPH winds with 3 to 6 inch diameter branches down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $1,000 | Sustained wind speeds were 45 to 50 MPH. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | - | Report was delayed. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | - | Time of occurrence estimated from radar. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Cumberland | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| March 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Cumberland | - | Multiple storm chaser reports of a funnel cloud southeast of Cumberland, IA. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Cumberland | - | Personal weather station measured heavy rainfall of 4.18 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Cumberland | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| October 2012 | Heavy Rain | Cumberland | - | Twenty four hour total of 5.10 inches. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Cumberland | - | Mostly pea size hail, though a few stones were penny size. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cumberland | - | Spotter estimated wind gust of 60 MPH. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Cumberland | - | Relayed public report of brief touchdown. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Cumberland | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cumberland | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cumberland | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cumberland | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway Center | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Massena | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lyman | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Dewey | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wiota | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Grove City (historical) | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sycamore Village | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Lewis | 11.5 miles | 10 |
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 Cumberland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1947650 | 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 455754. 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.





