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.
Population over time
3 figuresDouds 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 165 | |
| 2010 | 152 | -13 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 156 | +4 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Douds quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douds Underground Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gardner Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Selma-Nedrow Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Lightning | Douds | 1 hurt | A man was left with a headache after being struck by lightning. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douds | $50,000 | Winds 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 2006 | Hail | Douds | $6,000 | hail damage to a car |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douds | $2,000 | Trees down |
| June 2009 | Hail | Douds | $1,000 | Wind driven hail broke some windows just outside of Douds, IA around 1035 pm June 7. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douds | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Douds | - | Report received through Mping. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Douds | - | Report received through Mping. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Douds | - | Heavy rain and strong winds also reported. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douds | - | Law enforcement reported tree limbs down on Oak Grove Avenue near Douds. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Douds | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Douds | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leando | 0.4 miles | 7 | |
| Selma | 4.1 miles | 7 | |
| Kilbourn | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lebanon | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Birmingham | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pittsburg | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Parksville (historical) | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion | 8.8 miles | 11 |
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 Douds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2532279 | 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 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.




