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Estherville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Estherville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51334. It stands on School Creek. The Survey maps it on the Estherville quadrangle. 5,904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

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Estherville within Emmet County

Population over time

2 figures

Estherville fell from 6,360 to 5,904 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
20106,360
20205,904-456 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Estherville in 2004, burning about 59 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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 May 2004Natural59 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictHERMSEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Estherville: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Estherville City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Estherville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lucas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estherville in 87 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 34 thunderstorm wind, 33 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 heavy rain. 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEstherville$200,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEstherville$100,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$50,000no account filed
March 2007FloodEstherville$50,000no account filed
May 1997LightningEstherville$40,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEstherville$30,000Public reported a dugout at a local baseball field was destroyed and that the bowling alley experienced partial roof destruction. This is a delayed report.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEstherville$30,000no account filed
March 2007Flash FloodEstherville$25,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$25,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$25,000no account filed
May 2007FloodEstherville$25,000no account filed
August 2006Flash FloodEstherville$25,000no account filed
May 2005Flash FloodEstherville$25,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEstherville$25,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEstherville$20,000Emergency manager reported a car wash roof completely removed and destroyed. Provided picture via social media. This is a delayed report and time and location estimated.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEstherville$20,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEstherville$20,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEstherville$15,000Law Enforcement and Emergency Management reported several 3 to 5 inches tree limbs down throughout the town of Estherville. Some tree limbs were blocking roads.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEstherville$15,000Tree branches of 6 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2008LightningEstherville$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEstherville$15,000no account filed
June 1998HailEstherville$15,000no account filed
March 2010Flash FloodEstherville$10,000Water rose rapidly due to an ice jam on the west fork of the Des Moines River south of Estherville. The Parkland areas near the river in Estherville flooded. Low lying areas near the river also flooded.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$10,000no account filed
October 2007FloodEstherville$10,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$10,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000Public reported via social media that trees were down, along with torrential rainfall.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000Wind gusts of 65 MPH were reported by law enforcement.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000Very unstable air moved over the central U.S. This moist and unstable air overran a surface frontal boundary extending from central Minnesota, through eastern South Dakota, into western Kansas. Convective available potential energy was nearly 5000 J-Kg-1, with lifted indices in the -8 to -10 range given surface dew point temperatures in the middle to upper 70s. Thunderstorms erupted over north central Nebraska into south central and southeast South Dakota. The storms quickly organized into a mesoscale convective system, which took on a bow echo configuration as it traversed northeast Nebraska. The principle feature with this event was high winds. There was little significant hail and rainfall did not become excessive since the entire system was moving east at 45 MPH. Sixty to 70 MPH winds raked parts of northeast Nebraska and southeast South Dakota. The winds crossed the Iowa border around the stroke of midnight on the 5th. Trees were downed and power cut off in several areas. Some of the stronger winds moved through Crawford County. The storms produced 65 MPH winds in Monona County before gaining strength. In Crawford County, winds around 80 MPH ripped windows out of houses, caused some structural damage to others, and tore several barn doors off south and west of the town of Charter Oak. Ida Grove, in Ida County, was also hard hit by the high winds. Trees were downed and damage was reported to several houses. County sheriff reports from the county indicate that tree and power line damage was extensive around the county. The winds caused damage to crops in their path as well. Though the crop was not destroyed, some yield loss was expected as many farmers reported the corn crop leaning. Spotty damage was reported in the Iowa Great Lakes region as 70 MPH winds swept through the resort area. The damage was not severe, but some campers were tipped over by the wind. Winds around 75 MPH swept into Sioux County as well. Significant damage was done to buildings on a farmstead near Hawarden. Other structural damage occurred in Boyden. Lightning struck a house in Le Mars. The strike caused a gas line fire, however the fire was quickly contained. The storms weakened rapidly during the early morning hours. WSR-88D radar in Des Moines indicated the outflow boundary had advanced nearly 50 miles ahead of the line of thunderstorms. Shortly after the outflow advanced so far ahead of the system, rapid weakening occurred.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailEstherville$5,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailEstherville$5,000no account filed
July 1997LightningEstherville$5,000no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindEstherville$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailEstherville$5,000no account filed
September 1994HailEstherville$5,000no account filed
September 1994HailEstherville$5,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEstherville$3,000no account filed
July 2005HailEstherville$3,000no account filed
May 2002HailEstherville$3,000no account filed
March 2005HailEstherville$2,000no account filed
May 2005HailEstherville$2,000no account filed
August 2005HailEstherville$2,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEstherville$2,000no account filed
June 2001HailEstherville$2,000no account filed
July 2022Tornado (EF0)Estherville$1,000This tornado was reported by local law enforcement with portions of it also captured on video. Some of the path was also evident in high resolution satellite imagery. This tornado remained mostly in open cropland doing damage to corn and beans. However, it did pass by a couple of farmsteads with EF0 damage to trees.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEstherville$1,000Public reported that a large tree was uprooted. This is a delayed report.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEstherville$1,000Public reported a tree uprooted. This is a delayed report.
July 2010HailEstherville$1,000Mostly dime to nickel size hail reported.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindEstherville$1,000no account filed
July 2000HailEstherville$1,000no account filed
June 1999HailEstherville$1,000no account filed
June 1998HailEstherville$1,000no account filed
June 1998HailEstherville$1,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEstherville$1,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEstherville-Reports of multiple trees and branches broken off. Largest 1.5 ft in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Raleigh4.7 miles7
Wallingford6.0 miles7
Huntington6.6 miles7
Gruver6.8 miles7
Bubona (historical)10.5 miles7
Maple Hill11.0 miles7
Dolliver11.8 miles7
Gridley13.8 miles7

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 EsthervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q373546The 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 456397. 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.

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.