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.
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
Union Churchlisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresDavis 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 204 | |
| 2020 | 179 | -25 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1945 USGS Lamoni quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Lamoni quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Davis City quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Davis City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Davis City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Spaulding Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Davis City | $400,000 | Water 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Davis City | $150,000 | The 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 2019 | Flood | Davis City | $50,000 | The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.21 feet on 29 May 2019 at 14:30 UTC. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Davis City | $50,000 | The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.07 ft on 9 October 2018 at 13:00 UTC. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Davis City | $50,000 | Water was eroding the gravel from 275th St. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flood | Davis City | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Davis City | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Davis City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Davis City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Davis City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Davis City | $1,000 | Also 1.10 inches of rain in 20 minutes. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Davis City | - | Public report with video of pea to ping pong ball sized hail. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Davis City | - | Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 2.06 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Davis City | - | Rainfall in the past 3 hours was 3.35 inches. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Davis City | - | Spotter measured 3.2 inches of rain. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Davis City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Buda | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Blockly (historical) | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Togo (historical) | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Terre Haute | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Barrell (historical) | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasanton | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Lamoni | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Decatur | 7.2 miles | 10 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1821488 | 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 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.






