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Delmar, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52037. The Survey maps it on the Delmar North quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Delmar within Clinton County

On record in Delmar

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Delmar grew from 525 to 542 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
2010525
2020542+17 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Delmar between 2009 and 2017, burning about 41 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2439 296TH, IA
13 March 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 January 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Delmar: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holtz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Petersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmar in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2004Tornado (F1)Delmar$30,000Rated low end F1;winds estimated at 75 mph.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDelmar$30,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDelmar$20,000Winds destroyed a large barn killing one of four steers inside.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000trees and power lines down
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000Several trees were reported down in the town.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000A stopped semi was blown over near the junction of highway 136 & U.S. 61.
August 1994HailDelmar$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDelmar$3,000no account filed
May 2024HailDelmar-Report from Mping.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Trees and powerlines blown down in Delmar, Iowa.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Several trees were snapped in Delmar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDelmar-A trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Delmar-An EF-0 tornado caused damage to soybeans and trees along its half mile path. A trained spotter report and videos were used to determine the time of the tornado. The peak estimated winds were 65 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Law enforcement observed a semi-truck overturned.
June 2011HailDelmar-Quarter sized hail fell in Delmar, IA at 718 pm CDT June 15.
June 2011HailDelmar-Quarter sized hail continued to fall in Delmar, IA at 721 pm CDT June 15. In addition, heavy rains produced some minor street flooding.
June 2008HailDelmar-Quarter-sized hail fell just east of Delmar, IA at 9:06 am June 12.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Several trees blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed
June 2011HailDelmar-no account filed
May 2002HailDelmar-no account filed
March 1998Funnel CloudDelmar-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Riggs4.1 miles17
Petersville4.6 miles14
Browns6.0 miles13
North Welton6.1 miles14
Welton6.5 miles14
Elwood7.0 miles13
Bliedorn7.8 miles13
Charlotte8.1 miles16

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 DelmarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q580625The 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 455873. 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.