Gray, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50110. The Survey maps it on the Gray quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGray fell from 63 to 61 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 | 63 | |
| 2020 | 61 | -2 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Gray quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gray between 2006 and 2015, burning about 73 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gray in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flood | Gray | $250,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Gray | $100,000 | County reported multiple secondary roads in Audubon County closed due to flooding. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $10,000 | Tree branches were on electrical lines with power out in Gray. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $10,000 | Numerous tree branches down in the Gray area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $10,000 | Strong straight line winds caused sparking of transformers. Large branches were down and a tree fell on a car. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Gray | $5,000 | Public reported nickel to half dollar sized hail. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $5,000 | High winds in the town of Gray blew over trees and some traffic signs. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Gray | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Gray | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Gray | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Gray | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gray | - | Fire department reported multiple small tree branches broken in Gray. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Gray | - | Measured 3 inches of rain since 0500 CST. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Gray | - | A rainfall amount of 4.50 inches was reported. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Gray | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Gray | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Gray | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Gray | - | 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 Gray | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932549 | 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 457084. 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.





