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Greeley, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52050. The Survey maps it on the Greeley quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Greeley within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Greeley fell from 256 to 217 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
2010256
2020217-39 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Greeley between 2009 and 2015, burning about 28 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2539 155TH STREET, EARLVILLE, IA, IOWA
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Greeley: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harris QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kuhlman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oneida QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tibbott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greeley in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindGreeley$10,000Trees and power lines down; grain bin off foundation
July 2009HailGreeley$250Copious amounts of hail the size of a tennis ball fell about 3 miles northwest of Oneida, IA around 229 pm July 24. The hail cracked the windshield of a car.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGreeley-The Emergency Manager relayed a report of a tree down in Greeley.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGreeley-House and roofs damaged in Greeley and Oneida.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreeley-Widespread corn flattened due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Funnel CloudGreeley-Two separate reports of a funnel cloud north of Manchester.
July 2009HailGreeley-Hail the size of a golf ball fell in Greeley, IA around 228 pm July 24.
April 2001HailGreeley-Quarter sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
April 2013HailGreeley-no account filed
May 2004HailGreeley-no account filed
June 2002HailGreeley-no account filed
May 2000HailGreeley-no account filed
May 2000HailGreeley-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreeley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Oneida3.0 miles12
Dutchtown4.4 miles12
Almoral4.4 miles12
Thorpe5.9 miles12
Almoral Siding (historical)6.0 miles12
Holy Cross6.3 miles12
York6.3 miles12
Petersburg7.1 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 GreeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q745412The 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 457092. 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.