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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.

Floris within Davis County

Population over time

2 figures

Floris 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.

YearPeople Change
2010138
2020116-22 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 2017

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2020Debris and open burning500 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2020Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burning23 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Welch Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

38 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007FloodFloris$250,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodFloris$200,000City 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 2013Thunderstorm WindFloris$75,000Tin blown off barns and sheds blown down.
June 1994HailFloris$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFloris$35,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFloris$10,000Trained spotter report of estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph. Also reported a large tree had fallen on a garage in town.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindFloris$10,000Trained spotter reported broken windows and shingles blown off of roof. Time estimated by radar.
June 2006HailFloris$10,000no account filed
May 2002HailFloris$10,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFloris$5,000Thunderstorm winds toppled tree branches and power lines.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFloris$5,000Large trees were blown down onto a gravel road.
June 2009HailFloris$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailFloris$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFloris$5,000no account filed
April 2006HailFloris$2,000no account filed
June 2006HailFloris$2,000no account filed
June 2006HailFloris$2,000no account filed
May 2001HailFloris$2,000no account filed
September 2000HailFloris$1,000no account filed
June 2024HailFloris-Photo and report from social media. Time of occurrence was estimated from radar.
June 2024HailFloris-Photo from social media, which was taken at time included in report.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFloris-Trained spotter reported multiple healthy, live trees blown over or snapped off. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
November 2022Heavy RainFloris-A 24 hour rain total of 2.58 inches.
September 2022Heavy RainFloris-A 24 hour rain total of 3.17 inches.
September 2022Heavy RainFloris-A 24 hour rain total of 3.40 inches.
June 2021Heavy RainFloris-CoCoRaHS reported 3.08 inches of rain in 24 hours.
June 2021Heavy RainFloris-Coop observer reported 2.78 inches of rain in 24 hours.
June 2021Heavy RainFloris-Coop observer reported 3.13 inches of rain in 24 hours.
July 2021Heavy RainFloris-A 24 hour rain total of 2.13 inches.
May 2020Heavy RainFloris-CoCoRaHS report of 2.15 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar.
April 2019HailFloris-Trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
September 2019Heavy RainFloris-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.97 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainFloris-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainFloris-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.11 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2016Funnel CloudFloris-Trained spotter reported a brief funnel formed then lifted back into clouds.
June 2015Heavy RainFloris-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2024HailFloris-no account filed
June 2015Funnel CloudFloris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Dunnville (historical)3.6 miles10
Pleasant View (historical)3.7 miles10
Carbon5.2 miles10
Chequest (historical)5.3 miles7
Belknap5.8 miles10
Shunem6.4 miles10
White Elm6.8 miles7
Bloomfield8.9 miles10

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 FlorisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933321The 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.