Floris, Iowa
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lick Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52560. It stands on Morgan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Floris quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFloris fell from 138 to 116 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 | 138 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -22 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Ottumwa South quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Floris quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Floris between 2017 and 2020, burning about 703 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 500 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Floris: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welch Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Drill Hole | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite | |
| Drill Hole | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
38 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floris in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 heavy rain, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Flood | Floris | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Floris | $200,000 | City streets were flooded up to 1 foot deep and barricaded. A storage shed floated off of its foundation. One backyard was flooded to top of fence, caused by ponding and poor drainage. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $75,000 | Tin blown off barns and sheds blown down. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Floris | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $10,000 | Trained spotter report of estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph. Also reported a large tree had fallen on a garage in town. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $10,000 | Trained spotter reported broken windows and shingles blown off of roof. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Floris | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Floris | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled tree branches and power lines. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $5,000 | Large trees were blown down onto a gravel road. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Floris | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Floris | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Floris | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Floris | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Floris | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Floris | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Floris | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Floris | - | Photo and report from social media. Time of occurrence was estimated from radar. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Floris | - | Photo from social media, which was taken at time included in report. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floris | - | Trained spotter reported multiple healthy, live trees blown over or snapped off. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar. |
| November 2022 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | A 24 hour rain total of 2.58 inches. |
| September 2022 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | A 24 hour rain total of 3.17 inches. |
| September 2022 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | A 24 hour rain total of 3.40 inches. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | CoCoRaHS reported 3.08 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | Coop observer reported 2.78 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | Coop observer reported 3.13 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | A 24 hour rain total of 2.13 inches. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | CoCoRaHS report of 2.15 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Floris | - | Trained spotter reported penny sized hail. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.97 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.11 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Floris | - | Trained spotter reported a brief funnel formed then lifted back into clouds. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Floris | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Floris | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Floris | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunnville (historical) | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant View (historical) | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Carbon | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Chequest (historical) | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Belknap | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Shunem | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| White Elm | 6.8 miles | 7 | |
| Bloomfield | 8.9 miles | 10 |
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 Floris | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933321 | 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 456644. 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.





