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Gillett Grove, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gillett Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51341. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gillett Grove quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Gillett Grove within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Gillett Grove fell from 49 to 30 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
201049
202030-19 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gillett Grove between 2011 and 2019, burning about 68 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 April 2019Debris and open burning33 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2019Debris and open burning33 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources440TH ST. AND 310TH AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gillett Grove: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Eckley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillett Grove in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGillett Grove$100,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a 30 foot by 70 foot hog house, and destroyed smaller farm buildings. The winds damaged the roof, siding, and windows of the house on the farm. The winds also caused tree and power line damage and flattened corn crops. The amount of crop damage was not known.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindGillett Grove-Tree limbs down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGillett Grove-Trees down up to 2 feet in diameter.
August 2018HailGillett Grove-Hail was ping pong to golf ball size, lasting up to eight minutes.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Gillett Grove-A weak tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Gillett Grove-A small tornado was observed moving across a plowed field.
October 2002HailGillett Grove-Large hail covered the ground to a depth of two inches.
July 2018HailGillett Grove-no account filed
August 2018HailGillett Grove-no account filed
August 2005HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2001HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2001HailGillett Grove-no account filed
May 2001HailGillett Grove-no account filed
July 2000HailGillett Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Maclay (historical)3.7 miles9
Webb4.8 miles9
Greenville5.8 miles7
Cornell7.3 miles9
Dickens8.0 miles7
Rossie8.0 miles7
Spencer10.4 miles8
Birchwood Estates11.5 miles8

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 Gillett GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1916187The 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 465642. 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.