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Gladbrook, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50635. It stands on Devils Run. The Survey maps it on the Gladbrook quadrangle. 799 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Gladbrook within Tama County

On record in Gladbrook

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gladbrook fell from 945 to 799 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
2010945
2020799-146 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gladbrook between 2006 and 2015, burning about 21 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
Debris and open burning1

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
19 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1545 ABBOTT AVE, IOWA
29 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tama 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 Gladbrook: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Gladbrook Brick and Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Wolleson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harris QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Union Grove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladbrook in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flood, 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$75,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$50,000Numerous trees down. Electricity out.
May 2001Tornado (F2)Gladbrook$35,000Tornado moved out of Grundy County into Tama County. Track was through mostly rural areas with limited damage.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$35,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$30,000no account filed
April 2008FloodGladbrook$25,000E Ave washed out along Wolf Creek.
May 2001HailGladbrook$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$25,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down in Gladbrook. Time estimated from radar.
April 2008FloodGladbrook$10,000Highway 96 east of Gladbrook was closed due to flooding.
April 2008Flash FloodGladbrook$10,000Water reported over 170th St. in the Gladbrook area.
April 2008FloodGladbrook$10,000II Avenue was closed due to high water.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$10,000no account filed
May 2008HailGladbrook$5,000Quarter size hail was reported in Gladbrook.
March 2006HailGladbrook$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$2,000Large trees down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$2,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGladbrook$2,000no account filed
June 2011HailGladbrook$1,000Hail was dime to quarter size.
August 2020HailGladbrook-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail near Gladbrook.
August 2020Tornado (EFU)Gladbrook-Tornado associated with QLCS derecho first observed via high resolution satellite imagery. Path was also overflown by UAS confirming convegent path of debris. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU designation.
June 2017HailGladbrook-Media relayed report of half dollar sized hail via social media.
June 2017HailGladbrook-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail.
April 2009Heavy RainGladbrook-Weekend total.
April 2005HailGladbrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tama 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
Lincoln5.3 miles9
Garwin6.8 miles9
Dinsdale10.3 miles9
Buckingham (historical)12.6 miles9
Traer13.2 miles9
West Union (historical)14.2 miles9
Montour14.2 miles8
Mesquakie Indian Settlement14.7 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 GladbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933415The 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 456914. 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.