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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.

Gray within Audubon County

Population over time

2 figures

Gray 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.

YearPeople Change
201063
202061-2 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined4
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
12 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burning60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Audubon County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007FloodGray$250,000no account filed
March 2019FloodGray$100,000County reported multiple secondary roads in Audubon County closed due to flooding.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGray$25,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGray$10,000Tree branches were on electrical lines with power out in Gray.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGray$10,000Numerous tree branches down in the Gray area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGray$10,000Strong straight line winds caused sparking of transformers. Large branches were down and a tree fell on a car.
May 2019HailGray$5,000Public reported nickel to half dollar sized hail.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGray$5,000High winds in the town of Gray blew over trees and some traffic signs.
May 2004HailGray$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailGray$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGray$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailGray$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGray$1,000no account filed
April 2002HailGray$1,000no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindGray-Fire department reported multiple small tree branches broken in Gray.
July 2010Heavy RainGray-Measured 3 inches of rain since 0500 CST.
August 2009Heavy RainGray-A rainfall amount of 4.50 inches was reported.
April 2010HailGray-no account filed
June 2010FloodGray-no account filed
May 2005HailGray-no account filed
May 2004HailGray-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Audubon 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
Ross5.6 miles9
Audubon8.8 miles11
Viola Center9.9 miles9
Nishna10.5 miles11
Sharon11.4 miles11
Poplar11.9 miles8
Hamlin12.6 miles11
Larland13.8 miles11

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 GrayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932549The 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.