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Earling, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Westphalia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51530. The Survey maps it on the Earling quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Earling within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Earling fell from 437 to 397 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
2010437
2020397-40 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Earling between 2006 and 2019, burning about 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earling in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindEarling$75,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEarling$25,000Machine shed destroyed.
October 1994HailEarling$10,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEarling-Hickory tree down onto a camper. Mixed deciduous trees were broken. Sporadic crop damage was reported.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindEarling-The emergency manager estimated the gust to 65 mph.
September 2006HailEarling-Mostly pea size.
September 2019Funnel CloudEarling-no account filed
July 2016HailEarling-no account filed
April 2014HailEarling-no account filed
April 2008HailEarling-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEarling-no account filed
May 2005HailEarling-no account filed
May 2005HailEarling-no account filed
May 2004HailEarling-no account filed
May 2001HailEarling-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEarling-no account filed
April 1998HailEarling-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Westphalia4.0 miles8
Panama4.5 miles8
Defiance5.2 miles8
Manteno7.5 miles8
Kirkman8.7 miles8
Harlan9.8 miles8
Portsmouth10.2 miles8
Irwin11.3 miles8

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 EarlingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932766The 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 456105. 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.

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.