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Deep River, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Deep River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52222. The Survey maps it on the Deep River quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Deep River within Poweshiek County

Population over time

2 figures

Deep River fell from 279 to 249 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
2010279
2020249-30 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Deep River in 2017, burning about 10 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 burning3

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
28 July 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poweshiek County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deep River in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 3 tornado, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Deep River$100,000A farmstead had 2 barns blown down. The farmstead had portions of the roof peeled off with siding torn off and windows blown out.
April 2010HailDeep River$5,000The hail covered the ground.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDeep River$5,000Power lines down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDeep River$5,000no account filed
May 2000Tornado (F0)Deep River$1,000Small ropelike tornado, however not a gustnado for sure.
April 2010HailDeep River$1,000no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Deep River-Tornado occurred in farmland northeast of Deep River. Rated EF-Unknown as no damage indicators were impacted.
June 2010Heavy RainDeep River-Rainfall total since 0600 CST.
March 2006HailDeep River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poweshiek 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
Dresden1.0 miles8
Tilton5.0 miles8
Guernsey5.0 miles8
Montezuma8.1 miles8
Carnforth9.9 miles8
Brownsville (historical)10.7 miles8
Brooklyn11.2 miles8
Malcom13.2 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 Deep RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1901319The 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 455847. 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.