Duncombe, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50532. The Survey maps it on the Duncombe quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDuncombe fell from 410 to 381 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 | 410 | |
| 2020 | 381 | -29 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Duncombe quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Duncombe: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duncombe in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Flood | Duncombe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Duncombe | $10,000 | Walnut size hail was reported. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $5,000 | Large trees were blown down in town. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Duncombe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Duncombe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duncombe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Duncombe | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Duncombe | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.75 inches. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Duncombe | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. This is a delayed report. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Duncombe | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches of heavy rain for an event total so far. |
| March 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Duncombe | - | Brief touchdown in open fields. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Duncombe | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Duncombe | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Duncombe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brushy | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Judd | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Flugstad (historical) | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Evanston | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Border Plains | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Cypsum City (historical) | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Coalville | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Kalo | 7.8 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 Duncombe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932650 | 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 456060. 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.




