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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.

Duncombe within Webster County

Population over time

2 figures

Duncombe 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.

YearPeople Change
2010410
2020381-29 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

18 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2010FloodDuncombe$50,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$50,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$25,000no account filed
June 2008HailDuncombe$10,000Walnut size hail was reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$10,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$5,000Large trees were blown down in town.
July 1999HailDuncombe$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$5,000no account filed
June 2004HailDuncombe$3,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDuncombe$3,000no account filed
April 2007HailDuncombe$1,000no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainDuncombe-Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.75 inches.
August 2018HailDuncombe-Public reported quarter sized hail. This is a delayed report.
August 2015Heavy RainDuncombe-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches of heavy rain for an event total so far.
March 2005Tornado (F0)Duncombe-Brief touchdown in open fields.
June 2013Funnel CloudDuncombe-no account filed
April 2013HailDuncombe-no account filed
May 2003HailDuncombe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Brushy2.9 miles11
Judd3.0 miles11
Flugstad (historical)3.0 miles9
Evanston4.2 miles11
Border Plains5.8 miles11
Cypsum City (historical)7.1 miles11
Coalville7.2 miles11
Kalo7.8 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 DuncombeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932650The 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.