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Floyd, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Floyd Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50435. It stands on Stewart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Floyd quadrangle. 313 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Floyd within Floyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Floyd fell from 335 to 313 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
2010335
2020313-22 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 2006 and 2015, burning about 33 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/undetermined9
Smoking1

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
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1500 QUAIL AVE, FLOYD, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2015Smoking5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Floyd: 12 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Nims QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Towner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Warnholtz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Becker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Floyd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Coste PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lent PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd$50,000A semi-truck and trailer were blown over at a truck stop in Floyd.
May 1998HailFloyd$22,000no account filed
July 1999HailFloyd$15,000no account filed
June 2008FloodFloyd$10,000no account filed
May 2000HailFloyd$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFloyd$2,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFloyd$2,000no account filed
May 2006HailFloyd$1,500no account filed
June 2018FloodFloyd$1,000Runoff from heavy rains pushed a small creek out of its banks southwest of Floyd. Lancer Avenue had to be closed between 170th and 180th Streets because of the flooding.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFloyd$1,000Several large tree branches were blown down in Floyd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFloyd-The public reported a third of a large willow tree blown down in Floyd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Local broadcast media relayed a photo of a fallen large tree in Floyd.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd-An estimated 75 mph wind gust occurred in Floyd.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFloyd-An estimated 80 mph wind gust occurred west of Floyd.
March 2017HailFloyd-Quarter sized hail fell northwest of the town of Floyd.
March 2017HailFloyd-Quarter sized hail fell in the town of Floyd.
June 2017HailFloyd-Up to quarter sized hail fell in Floyd.
September 2016Heavy RainFloyd-Near Floyd, 3.85 inches of rain fell.
October 2013Flash FloodFloyd-A vehicle became stranded in flood waters on a U.S. Highway 218 bridge over the Cedar River in Floyd. All the occupants were safely rescued by emergency personnel.
May 2012HailFloyd-no account filed
April 2010HailFloyd-no account filed
April 2004HailFloyd-no account filed
June 2002HailFloyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Floyd Crossing2.5 miles7
Howardville4.5 miles7
Charles City5.4 miles7
Doubleday (historical)6.2 miles7
Nilesville6.6 miles7
Colwell7.8 miles7
Carney (historical)7.9 miles7
Oakwood8.5 miles7

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 FloydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932698The 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 456646. 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.