Exline, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Caldwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52555. The Survey maps it on the Centerville East quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresExline grew from 160 to 160 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 | 160 | |
| 2020 | 160 | 0 (0%) |
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.
- 1939 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Centerville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Exline between 2006 and 2019, burning about 520 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 82 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 120 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Exline: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drill Hole | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite | |
| Farnsworth-Mott Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exline in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Exline | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported water over the road near Highway 5 and T30 blocking poeple from leaving their residences. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Exline | $25,000 | At the intersection of 285th Ave and 570th a spotter reported 3 feet of fast flowing water. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exline | $5,000 | Trees were reported downed by high winds via KCCI TV. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Exline | $2,000 | Report received from the Iowa State Patrol. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exline | $1,000 | A trained spotter said a thunderstorm wind gust struck his northbound pickup truck from the west and pushed the truck over a lane. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Exline | - | Storm chaser report of baseball-sized hail, along with a broken windshield. Time of occurrence estimated from radar. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Exline | - | Also included a 40 to 50 MPH wind. |
| November 2010 | Hail | Exline | - | A large amount of pea to penny size hail was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedan | 0.7 miles | 11 | |
| Thirty | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Cincinnati | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Streepy | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mendota (historical) | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Centerville | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Martinstown | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Dean | 6.9 miles | 7 |
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 Exline | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1917811 | 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 456457. 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.






