Exira, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Exira Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50076. It stands on Davids Creek. The Survey maps it on the Exira West quadrangle. 787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.
On record in Exira
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Audubon County Courthouselisted 1977
John D. Bush Houselisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresExira fell from 840 to 787 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 | 840 | |
| 2020 | 787 | -53 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Audubon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Exira West quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Exira in 2017, burning about 60 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Exira: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brayton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exira in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Exira | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Exira | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Exira | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Exira | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Exira | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Exira | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Exira | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | $1,000 | Healthy, mature tree blown over. Large 6 inch or larger tree limbs snapped. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | - | Large tree damage. Time of occurrence estimated from radar. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exira | - | Garage roof removed. Time of occurrence estimated from radar. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Exira | - | Ground covered in hail up to nickel sized. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Exira | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Exira | - | 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.
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 Exira | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932713 | 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 456456. 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.






