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Douds, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52551. It stands on Holcomb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Douds quadrangle. 156 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Douds within Van Buren County

Population over time

3 figures

Douds fell from 165 to 156 between 2000 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
2000165
2010152-13 (-8%)
2020156+4 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

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 Douds: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Douds Underground MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gardner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Selma-Nedrow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douds in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2002LightningDouds1 hurtA man was left with a headache after being struck by lightning.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDouds$50,000Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew a tree down onto a house along Highway 98 south of the Pedrick Funeral Home on the north side of Douds, IA around 11 pm June 7.
March 2006HailDouds$6,000hail damage to a car
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDouds$2,000Trees down
June 2009HailDouds$1,000Wind driven hail broke some windows just outside of Douds, IA around 1035 pm June 7.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDouds$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailDouds-Report received through Mping.
June 2023HailDouds-Report received through Mping.
May 2019HailDouds-Heavy rain and strong winds also reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDouds-Law enforcement reported tree limbs down on Oak Grove Avenue near Douds.
May 2023HailDouds-no account filed
September 2000HailDouds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Leando0.4 miles7
Selma4.1 miles7
Kilbourn6.6 miles11
Lebanon7.8 miles7
Birmingham7.9 miles11
Pittsburg8.2 miles11
Parksville (historical)8.7 miles11
Mount Zion8.8 miles11

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 DoudsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2532279The 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 455960. 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.