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Dedham, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51440. It stands on Dedham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dedham quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Dedham within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Dedham fell from 266 to 224 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
2010266
2020224-42 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dedham between 2007 and 2009, burning about 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dedham: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dedham in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDedham$15,000Trained spotter reported widespread power line damage in the Carroll area.
April 2002HailDedham$15,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDedham$10,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindDedham$5,000KCCI relayed a large tree trunk snapped via a viewer.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDedham$5,000Tree limbs blown down and corn damaged.
June 2013HailDedham$5,000no account filed
June 2013HailDedham$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailDedham$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailDedham$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailDedham$5,000no account filed
June 1999LightningDedham$5,000no account filed
September 2006HailDedham$3,000no account filed
June 2013HailDedham$2,000no account filed
June 2013HailDedham$2,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindDedham$2,000no account filed
April 2002Tornado (F0)Dedham$1,000Brief touchdown with only minor damage.
April 2024HailDedham-A large quantity of dime to nickel sized hail.
July 2020Funnel CloudDedham-Law enforcement relayed multiple reports of funnel clouds occurring with showers in the area.
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Dedham-Tornado touched down briefly between Willey and Dedham.
June 2013HailDedham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Carrollton5.0 miles9
Willey5.0 miles9
Templeton6.4 miles9
Coon Rapids8.0 miles9
Roselle8.2 miles8
Halbur10.5 miles8
Carroll11.3 miles8
Glidden11.5 miles8

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 DedhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q339904The 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 455840. 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.