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Harcourt, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lost Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50544. The Survey maps it on the Harcourt quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Harcourt within Webster County

Population over time

2 figures

Harcourt fell from 303 to 264 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
2010303
2020264-39 (-13%)

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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Harcourt between 2008 and 2009, burning about 4 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/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
17 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

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 Harcourt: 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 Webster County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harcourt in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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 1998HailHarcourt$150,000Hail covered the ground
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Harcourt$70,000Video evidence submitted by a firefighter showed a tornado touchdown approximately 3 miles west northwest of Dayton with dust and debris being lifted into the air. Tornado significantly damaged a hog confinement facility along with damaging power lines.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHarcourt$50,000A garage was destroyed and several trees were downed in town.
June 1994HailHarcourt$50,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHarcourt$15,000Large tree was down on a house. Other limb damage also reported.
July 1999HailHarcourt$10,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarcourt$5,000Two trees were down in a park across the street. Winds were 60 to 70 MPH.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarcourt$5,000Two trees were blown down in town.
June 1994HailHarcourt$5,000no account filed
July 1999HailHarcourt$1,000no account filed
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Harcourt-Weak tornado occurred northeast of Harcourt and remained in rural areas. Path was determined using high resolution satellite data. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Harcourt-Weak tornado occurred east of Harcourt and remained in rural areas. Path was determined using high resolution satellite data. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating.
April 2018HailHarcourt-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
June 2018Funnel CloudHarcourt-Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud.
June 2015Heavy RainHarcourt-Twenty-four hour rainfall of 2.26 inches was reported.
October 2014Heavy RainHarcourt-Rainfall of 1.52 inches in the past 24 hours.
April 2013Heavy RainHarcourt-Rainfall of 1.65 inches in past 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Lanyon3.0 miles11
Palm Grove4.4 miles12
Dayton5.7 miles11
Gowrie6.2 miles8
Lena6.6 miles9
Burnside6.8 miles11
Lundgren7.3 miles12
Callender9.3 miles8

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 HarcourtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2017545The 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 457242. 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.