Deloit, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51441. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Denison quadrangle. 250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDeloit fell from 264 to 250 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 | 264 | |
| 2020 | 250 | -14 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Denison quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Deloit in 2013, burning about 3 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Deloit: 8 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Deloit Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deloit in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Flood | Deloit | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Deloit | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Deloit | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Deloit | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Deloit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Deloit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Deloit | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Deloit | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $2,000 | Several branches down, a few four inches in diameter. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $2,000 | Trees up to 5 inches in diameter blown down. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Deloit | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | $1,000 | Public reported numerous tree limbs down. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Deloit | $1,000 | Tornado touched down in a corn field and cut a path across the field. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Deloit | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Deloit | - | Storm Chasers had video of this tornado as it remained in rural areas of Crawford county between Deloit and Schleswig. The tornado did not impact any damage indicators, hence the EFU rating. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deloit | - | Second hand, delayed report of wind damage from just north of Vail to east of Deloit. Hog barn roof blown off, several trees uprooted, and some hail damage. Time estimated by radar. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Deloit | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denison | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Kiron | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Vail | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Sunset Village | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Boyer | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Schleswig | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kimze | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Boyer River | 8.9 miles | 8 |
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 Deloit | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q668537 | 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 455874. 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.




