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Hanlontown, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Danville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50444. It stands on Winans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fertile quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Hanlontown within Worth County

Population over time

2 figures

Hanlontown fell from 226 to 206 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
2010226
2020206-20 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hanlontown between 2010 and 2016, burning about 41 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictHANLONTOWN
19 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3770 BLUEBILL AVE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth 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 Hanlontown: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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
Brakke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fertile Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanlontown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PrestholtSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanlontown in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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
July 2013Flash FloodHanlontown$150,000Grouse Ave was closed between 380th and 390th due to water damage from flooding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$75,000County dispatch reported overturned semis along I-35 around mile markers 203, 205, 207, and 208. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$60,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$40,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$25,000Public reported damage to grain bins and trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$25,000Emergency manager reports semis blown over on I-35 near Highway 9. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$15,000Emergency manager reported trees uprooted and a grain bin blown down in Hanlontown. This is a delayed report and time estimated by radar.
August 2016Flash FloodHanlontown$10,000Law enforcement reported a 1 mile stretch along 390th street near the intersection of Grouse Ave and 390th St closed and blocked off due to water over the road. Time estimated by radar. Delayed report.
August 2007Flash FloodHanlontown$10,000Street flooding was reported in town.
May 2000HailHanlontown$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$5,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHanlontown$1,000no account filed
July 2020HailHanlontown-Broadcast media relayed a report of ping pong ball sized hail just north of Hanlontown occurring around 3:30 pm.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHanlontown-Public reported 12 to 18 inch diameter tree limbs down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHanlontown-Public relayed wind gusts of 61 mph from personal weather station. Power lines up at the time, with other tree damage reports nearby.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHanlontown-Iowa DOT RWIS in Hanlontown recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2013HailHanlontown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Fertile2.4 miles7
Joice6.9 miles7
Manly9.4 miles7
Somber9.9 miles7
Bristol10.2 miles7
Kensett10.3 miles7
Glade12.3 miles7
Lansrud12.8 miles7

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 HanlontownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932082The 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 457231. 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.