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Davis City, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Burrell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50065. The Survey maps it on the Davis City quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Davis City within Decatur County

On record in Davis City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Davis City fell from 204 to 179 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
2010204
2020179-25 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Davis City: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Davis City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Davis City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Davis City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spaulding QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davis City in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 flood. 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 2014Flash FloodDavis City$400,000Water of 2 feet to 3 feet deep in some places was reported in Davis City as the drainage system could not keep up with the rain.
June 2014Flash FloodDavis City$150,000The Decatur County Engineer reported an estimated 25 culverts damaged and 12 bridges damaged from water. Another 40 locations of roadway were overtopped by water resulting in at least 20 road closures.
May 2019FloodDavis City$50,000The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.21 feet on 29 May 2019 at 14:30 UTC.
October 2018FloodDavis City$50,000The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.07 ft on 9 October 2018 at 13:00 UTC.
July 2008Flash FloodDavis City$50,000Water was eroding the gravel from 275th St.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindDavis City$50,000no account filed
May 2007FloodDavis City$25,000no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodDavis City$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDavis City$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailDavis City$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDavis City$5,000no account filed
April 2010HailDavis City$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDavis City$2,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDavis City$2,000no account filed
May 2012HailDavis City$1,000Also 1.10 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
June 2021HailDavis City-Public report with video of pea to ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainDavis City-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 2.06 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainDavis City-Rainfall in the past 3 hours was 3.35 inches.
September 2010Heavy RainDavis City-Spotter measured 3.2 inches of rain.
June 2005HailDavis City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
New Buda2.6 miles10
Blockly (historical)3.3 miles10
Togo (historical)4.1 miles11
Terre Haute4.2 miles10
Barrell (historical)5.0 miles10
Pleasanton5.4 miles7
Lamoni6.6 miles11
Decatur7.2 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 Davis CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1821488The 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 455807. 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.