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Farragut, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fisher Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51639. The Survey maps it on the Farragut quadrangle. 490 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Farragut within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Farragut grew from 485 to 490 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
2010485
2020490+5 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Farragut between 2006 and 2010, burning about 78 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/undetermined7

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
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3932 MANTI ROAD, FARRAGUT, IA, IOWA
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farragut in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 18 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 2019FloodFarragut1 killed, 2 hurt, $22,000,000Flooding along the Nishnabotna River. The river gage above Hamburg, operated by the USGS, peaked at 31.07 feet at 11 am on March 16th. Moderate flood stage is 27.5 feet while major flood stage is 33 feet. Preliminary informations shows this peak is the 3rd highest on record. Flooding also occurred along the Missouri River. The river gage at Nebraska City, operated by the USGS, peaked at 30.15 feet at 6 pm on March 16th. Minor flood stage is 18 feet, moderate flood stage is 23 feet while major flood stage is 27 feet. Preliminary data shows this to be a record crest. Flooding continued into the next month. Levees 601, 594 and 575 failed flooding Bartlett, Percival, Hamburg, and the truck stop area near Interstate 29. Dollar estimate is from the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District. Hospitals and businesses were impacted by the flood. Floods devastated livestock, grain storage, and fields that had yet to be planted.Water systems in Hamburg were incapacitated and overcome with high water. Three men were driving in Hamburg and drove around a road closed barrieron the evening of the 15th. They continued driving until they hit flood water, where the current swept their vehicle away. The men tried to swim to safety. Two of the men were found holding onto trees in the floodwaters. The third was found in a ditch near a residence trying to get warm. One of the men died.
June 2008LightningFarragut$100,000Lightning apparently struck a house causing a fire that totally destroyed it.
June 1994HailFarragut$50,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFarragut-Public reported numerous large tree branches blown down throughout town.
June 2017HailFarragut-Ping-Pong ball size hail damaged siding on a home, and stripped leaves off of bean and corn crops about 6 1/2 miles south southeast of Farragut.
May 2013Flash FloodFarragut-Water was reported over Manti road for about 15 minutes.
May 2012HailFarragut-Hail up to ping pong ball-size was reported east of Farragut.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFarragut-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 65 mph downed tree limbs in the area. The winds were accompanied by penny-size hail.
August 2012HailFarragut-Penny-size hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFarragut-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed some 3 to 4 inch in diameter tree limbs in the area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFarragut-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed some trees and caused some grain bin and other outbuilding damage from around Farragut to near Shenandoah.
May 2007FloodFarragut-Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell across much of the lower Nishnabotna River basin from late on May 23rd until early on the 24th. Sidney reported a little over 2 inches for the 24 hour total ending Thursday morning the 24th, with heavier amounts observed just to the northeast. The heavy rain caused the Nishnabotna River to flood across Fremont county. The river at Hamburg reached a crest just under 24 feet from around 6 am CDT through 1 pm on May 26th before gradually beginning to fall. Flood stage is 23 feet. The Nishnabotna River at Hamburg was above flood stage from around 315 pm CDT on May 25th until around 1045 pm on the 27th. The high water flooded some farmland along the river.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Farragut-The tornado damaged or destroyed trees in its nearly 12 mile path along with some grain bins, sheds and barns. The tornado crossed into extreme southeast Mills county near Highway 59 northeast of Imogene before lifting about a half mile into that county. Most of the damage was done in Fremont county.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFarragut-Thunderstorm winds from storms south of the area caused enough outflow to down trees along highway 2 northeast of Farragut.
May 2019HailFarragut-no account filed
April 2017HailFarragut-no account filed
May 2016HailFarragut-no account filed
August 2011HailFarragut-no account filed
June 2008HailFarragut-no account filed
June 2008HailFarragut-no account filed
March 2006HailFarragut-no account filed
April 2005HailFarragut-no account filed
July 2002HailFarragut-no account filed
September 2001HailFarragut-no account filed
May 1998HailFarragut-no account filed
May 1998HailFarragut-no account filed
June 1996HailFarragut-no account filed
May 1995HailFarragut-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Riverton5.2 miles12
Summit8.1 miles8
Anderson8.5 miles9
Sidney9.0 miles12
High Creek9.4 miles10
Imogene11.2 miles8
Randolph11.4 miles9
Hamburg12.4 miles13

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 FarragutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1866428The 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 456556. 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.