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Guthrie Center, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50115. It stands on Mason Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guthrie Center West quadrangle. 1,593 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

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Guthrie Center within Guthrie County

On record in Guthrie Center

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

Guthrie Center grew from 1,569 to 1,593 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
20101,569
20201,593+24 (+2%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Guthrie Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

60 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guthrie Center in 88 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 41 hail, 19 heavy rain, 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood. 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 2008FloodGuthrie Center$100,000The south Raccoon River was out of its banks with flooding in the city. Sandbagging started near the water plant, city wells, pools, and municipal gas facilities.
July 1998Flash FloodGuthrie Center$100,000no account filed
June 1998FloodGuthrie Center$100,000no account filed
October 2007Flash FloodGuthrie Center$50,000Law enforcement reported that numerous county roads were under water.
July 1998FloodGuthrie Center$30,000no account filed
April 2009Flash FloodGuthrie Center$25,000Water reported over Highway 25 in Guthrie Center.
April 2009Flash FloodGuthrie Center$25,000Water was over Highway 25 just south of Guthrie Center.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$25,000Power was out with numerous tree limbs down, one was 18 inches in diameter. A swing set was picked up and rolled across the yard.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$25,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$20,000Roof blown off apartment building in Guthrie Center. Time estimated by radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$20,000Trained spotter reported large trees snapped around 2 to 3 feet in diameter.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$20,000Emergency Manager reported several large trees down.
July 2008Heavy RainGuthrie Center$20,000Basement flooding between 2320 and 0450 CDT. Rainfall 6.72 inches.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$20,000no account filed
May 2004HailGuthrie Center$20,000no account filed
September 2002HailGuthrie Center$20,000no account filed
April 2009Heavy RainGuthrie Center$15,000Five inches of rain fell since 0800 CST with water coming into the basement on all 4 sides.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$15,000no account filed
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$15,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$15,000no account filed
May 2004HailGuthrie Center$15,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodGuthrie Center$10,000Water reported over many roads in town.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$10,000Numerous tree branches up to 4 inches in diameter down with power out in part of the city.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$10,000no account filed
May 2005HailGuthrie Center$10,000no account filed
July 1999HailGuthrie Center$10,000no account filed
July 1998FloodGuthrie Center$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$5,000Downed trees and branches across much of the city.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$5,000Emergency Manager reported 1 to 2 inch hail.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$5,000Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch hail at his home.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$5,000Twelve to fourteen inch diameter ash trees blown down.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
April 2004HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
September 2002HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
July 1999HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailGuthrie Center$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$3,000Tree damage was reported with 10 to 12 inch limbs down.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$3,000High winds downed trees, power poles, and lines in Guthrie Center.
May 2011HailGuthrie Center$3,000no account filed
June 2006HailGuthrie Center$3,000no account filed
April 2004HailGuthrie Center$3,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$3,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$3,000no account filed
September 2010HailGuthrie Center$2,000Quarter size hail and heavy rain reported.
June 2015HailGuthrie Center$2,000no account filed
July 2013HailGuthrie Center$2,000no account filed
September 2005HailGuthrie Center$2,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$2,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$1,000Spotter estimated 60 MPH winds.
June 2010HailGuthrie Center$1,000A few nickel sized hail stones with the rest dime and pea size.
September 2010HailGuthrie Center$1,000Nickel size hail reported at a gas station in Guthrie Center.
June 2009HailGuthrie Center$1,000no account filed
May 2004HailGuthrie Center$1,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGuthrie Center$1,000no account filed
April 2001HailGuthrie Center$1,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Monteith5.1 miles11
Fanslers5.6 miles11
Lake Panorama6.4 miles11
Wichita6.6 miles9
Panora7.5 miles11
Glendon7.8 miles11
Dale10.2 miles11
Yale10.3 miles10

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 Guthrie CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913499The 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 457185. 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.

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.