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Cushing, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51018. The Survey maps it on the Cushing quadrangle. 230 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

Cushing within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Cushing grew from 220 to 230 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
2010220
2020230+10 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cushing between 2009 and 2019, burning about 109 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSTORY AVE & D15, IOWA
26 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cushing in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996HailCushing$200,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCushing-Numerous large branches removed by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Correctionville5.9 miles8
Midway7.1 miles9
Anthon11.4 miles8
Pierson11.6 miles9
Lucky Valley (historical)15.0 miles8
Danbury16.1 miles9
Oto17.0 miles8
Moville21.1 miles9

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 CushingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933615The 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 455761. 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.