BlockCurlew, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rush Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50527. The Survey maps it on the Mallard quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCurlew fell from 58 to 37 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 | 58 | |
| 2020 | 37 | -21 (-36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Mallard quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Curlew: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curlew in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008 | Lightning | Curlew | 1 killed | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Curlew | $20,000 | Emergency manager reported tree branches down, including one on a house. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Curlew | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Curlew | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Curlew | $1,000 | Nickel size hail and heavy rain. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Curlew | - | Emergency manager reported nickel sized hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Curlew | - | KICD Radio relayed heavy rainfall report of 2.00 inches. |
| July 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Curlew | - | NWS Chicago relayed a funnel cloud report from one of the trained spotters. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Curlew | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 5.65 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Curlew | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Curlew | - | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Curlew | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mallard | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ayrshire | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Emmetsburg | 9.7 miles | 7 | |
| Rodman | 11.6 miles | 7 | |
| Cylinder | 12.5 miles | 7 | |
| Ruthven | 13.3 miles | 7 | |
| Osgood | 14.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fallow (historical) | 15.4 miles | 7 |
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 Curlew | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1947758 | 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 455758. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.