Gilman, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greencastle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50106. The Survey maps it on the Gilman quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGilman grew from 509 to 542 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 | 509 | |
| 2020 | 542 | +33 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grinnell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gilman between 2006 and 2009, burning about 4 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilman in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | $15,000 | Power poles were leaning at a 45 degree angle. A highway sign was snapped off and large tree branches were downed. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Gilman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Lightning | Gilman | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Gilman | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | - | Delayed report of several trees down in town. In addition, up to 2 inches in depth of half to three-quarter inch diameter hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Gilman | - | Public relayed a picture of quarter sized hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | - | Public reported wind damage potentially including tree limbs and power poles broken. Time is estimated from radar, and came in via the mPING application. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Gilman | - | Coop observer reported 24 hour rainfall total of 1.60 inches. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Gilman | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Gilman | - | Coop observer reported 2.75 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Gilman | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.80 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilman | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 MPH winds. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Gilman | - | Rainfall 24 hour total as of 0600 CST was 1.85 inches. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Gilman | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Gilman | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Gilman | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Gilman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932470 | 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 456902. 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.
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.





