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Danbury, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Liston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51019. It stands on Koker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Danbury quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Danbury within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Danbury fell from 348 to 320 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
2010348
2020320-28 (-8%)

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

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Danbury between 2014 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2014Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Danbury: 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danbury in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2002Thunderstorm WindDanbury$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage. Numerous trees were blown down, including a 3 inch diameter tree snapped off at its base.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindDanbury$50,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDanbury$40,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including large limbs blown down. One large limb fell onto and damaged a house. Power lines and poles were also blown down.
August 2011HailDanbury$20,000Large hail dented vehicles and cracked a few windows.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDanbury$10,000A roof was blown off a shed by thunderstorm winds. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindDanbury$5,000no account filed
April 2026HailDanbury-Quarter size hail was photographed between Danbury and Battle Creek.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 4 to 5 inch diameter branches down.
August 2001Tornado (F0)Danbury-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2018HailDanbury-no account filed
June 2018HailDanbury-no account filed
August 2009HailDanbury-no account filed
September 2006HailDanbury-no account filed
May 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
May 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
May 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
May 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
August 2001HailDanbury-no account filed
May 1999HailDanbury-no account filed

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
Midway9.4 miles9
Oto9.7 miles8
Smithland11.1 miles8
Anthon13.1 miles8
Lucky Valley (historical)15.5 miles8
Cushing16.1 miles8
Correctionville17.0 miles8
Holly Springs19.0 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 DanburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934143The 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 455785. 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.

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.