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Gilbertville, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Poyner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50634. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilbertville quadrangle. 794 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Gilbertville within Black Hawk County

Population over time

2 figures

Gilbertville grew from 712 to 794 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
2010712
2020794+82 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gilbertville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 16 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/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 March 2020Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Gilbertville: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Iron. 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
Pint's QuarryFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, IronPast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Pints QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raymond MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Raymond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hawkeye Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbertville in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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 2001Tornado (F0)Gilbertville$40,000Brief touchdown with minor damage to buildings.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGilbertville$20,000no account filed
November 2015Thunderstorm WindGilbertville$10,000Law Enforcement reported a large tree down in the 5200 block of Gilbertville Rd. Time estimated by radar.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Gilbertville$5,000Weak tornado moved into the area, but was only on the ground briefly.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGilbertville$5,000no account filed
May 2002HailGilbertville$5,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGilbertville-Multiple personal weather stations in the area reporting wind gusts over 60 mph.
July 2025Flash FloodGilbertville-Black Hawk EM, broadcast media, and local spotters reported roadways closed due to flooding, stranded vehicles, and water up to the curb on roadways in and around Waterloo. Public reports in Waterloo and Cedar Falls of swift moving water in low lying areas, as well as water bubbling out of manhole covers.
July 2025FloodGilbertville-Coordination with the Black Hawk EM prompted a transition from flash flooding to areal flooding, as water continued to impact the area hours after the initial rainfall.
June 2023HailGilbertville-CoCoRaHS observer reported shredded leaves from ping pong ball sized hail. This is a delayed report.
July 2021Heavy RainGilbertville-A 24 hour rain total of 2.42 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainGilbertville-CoCoRaHS observer recorded 3.11 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainGilbertville-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.43 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
April 2017HailGilbertville-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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
Washburn2.8 miles11
Raymar3.0 miles9
Raymond3.7 miles9
Elk Run Heights4.1 miles11
Cedar Knoll Park4.5 miles11
Evansdale5.1 miles11
Hilltop5.1 miles11
Louise5.9 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 GilbertvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933253The 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 456900. 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.