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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.

Cumberland within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Cumberland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010262
2020251-11 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

2 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
23 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

43 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCumberland$1,100,000no account filed
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Cumberland$250,000Several farms had damage to grain bins, out buildings, trees, and powerlines. Track was intermittent.
May 2007Flash FloodCumberland$250,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodCumberland$200,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodCumberland$100,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodCumberland$50,000Water 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 2008Flash FloodCumberland$50,000no account filed
April 2007Flash FloodCumberland$50,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCumberland$25,000Report of power lines and trees down in Cumberland. One tree on top of a house with moderate roof damage.
June 2014HailCumberland$25,000no account filed
June 2009HailCumberland$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCumberland$25,000no account filed
March 2011Thunderstorm WindCumberland$20,000A shed was blown down about 1 mile west of Highway 92 and County road N28.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCumberland$15,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCumberland$10,000Power lines were blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCumberland$10,000Spotters reported the top of a chimney was blown off of a house. Small tree limbs down as well.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCumberland$10,000Tree limbs up to 12 inches in diameter down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCumberland$10,000no account filed
August 2001HailCumberland$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCumberland$5,000no account filed
April 2001HailCumberland$4,000no account filed
March 2011HailCumberland$3,000Quarter to ping pong ball size hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCumberland$3,000Four inch tree branches blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCumberland$3,000Tree limbs blown down by high winds.
June 1997HailCumberland$3,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCumberland$2,000Spotter estimated 60 MPH winds with 3 to 6 inch diameter branches down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCumberland$2,000no account filed
March 2011Thunderstorm WindCumberland$1,000Sustained wind speeds were 45 to 50 MPH.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCumberland$1,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCumberland-Report was delayed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCumberland-Time of occurrence estimated from radar.
May 2024HailCumberland-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
March 2022Funnel CloudCumberland-Multiple storm chaser reports of a funnel cloud southeast of Cumberland, IA.
May 2019Heavy RainCumberland-Personal weather station measured heavy rainfall of 4.18 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar.
June 2017HailCumberland-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
October 2012Heavy RainCumberland-Twenty four hour total of 5.10 inches.
October 2010HailCumberland-Mostly pea size hail, though a few stones were penny size.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCumberland-Spotter estimated wind gust of 60 MPH.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Cumberland-Relayed public report of brief touchdown.
March 2011HailCumberland-no account filed
September 2005HailCumberland-no account filed
May 2003HailCumberland-no account filed
May 2003HailCumberland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Norway Center4.9 miles9
Massena5.6 miles9
Lyman6.7 miles9
Dewey8.5 miles9
Wiota8.7 miles9
Grove City (historical)9.2 miles9
Sycamore Village11.4 miles9
Lewis11.5 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 CumberlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1947650The 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.