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.
Population over time
2 figuresGilbertville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 712 | |
| 2020 | 794 | +82 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Gilbertville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 October 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pint's Quarry | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Iron | Past Producer | Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Pints Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Raymond Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Raymond Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hawkeye Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Livingston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Gilbertville | $40,000 | Brief touchdown with minor damage to buildings. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilbertville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilbertville | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported a large tree down in the 5200 block of Gilbertville Rd. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Gilbertville | $5,000 | Weak tornado moved into the area, but was only on the ground briefly. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilbertville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Gilbertville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilbertville | - | Multiple personal weather stations in the area reporting wind gusts over 60 mph. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Gilbertville | - | 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 2025 | Flood | Gilbertville | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Gilbertville | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported shredded leaves from ping pong ball sized hail. This is a delayed report. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Gilbertville | - | A 24 hour rain total of 2.42 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Gilbertville | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded 3.11 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Gilbertville | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Gilbertville | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washburn | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Raymar | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Raymond | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Elk Run Heights | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cedar Knoll Park | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Evansdale | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hilltop | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Louise | 5.9 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 Gilbertville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933253 | 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 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.



