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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.

Gilman within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Gilman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010509
2020542+33 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2006

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

19 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGilman$15,000Power poles were leaning at a 45 degree angle. A highway sign was snapped off and large tree branches were downed.
May 2013HailGilman$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGilman$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGilman$5,000no account filed
April 2005LightningGilman$3,000no account filed
July 2009HailGilman$2,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGilman$1,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGilman-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 2019HailGilman-Public relayed a picture of quarter sized hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGilman-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 2017Heavy RainGilman-Coop observer reported 24 hour rainfall total of 1.60 inches.
September 2016Heavy RainGilman-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches.
July 2015Heavy RainGilman-Coop observer reported 2.75 inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainGilman-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.80 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGilman-A trained spotter estimated 60 MPH winds.
June 2013Heavy RainGilman-Rainfall 24 hour total as of 0600 CST was 1.85 inches.
March 2023HailGilman-no account filed
July 2023HailGilman-no account filed
May 2013HailGilman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Dunbar4.3 miles8
Pickering4.5 miles8
Ferguson5.7 miles8
Dillon7.0 miles8
Laurel7.0 miles8
Le Grand8.9 miles12
Wolf Lake Addition9.5 miles8
Quarry9.6 miles12

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 GilmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932470The 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.