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.
Population over time
2 figuresHarcourt 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 303 | |
| 2020 | 264 | -39 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1923 USGS Lehigh quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Harcourt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Harcourt | $150,000 | Hail covered the ground |
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Harcourt | $70,000 | Video 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harcourt | $50,000 | A garage was destroyed and several trees were downed in town. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Harcourt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harcourt | $15,000 | Large tree was down on a house. Other limb damage also reported. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Harcourt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harcourt | $5,000 | Two trees were down in a park across the street. Winds were 60 to 70 MPH. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harcourt | $5,000 | Two trees were blown down in town. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Harcourt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Harcourt | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Tornado (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 2021 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Harcourt | - | Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Harcourt | - | Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Harcourt | - | Twenty-four hour rainfall of 2.26 inches was reported. |
| October 2014 | Heavy Rain | Harcourt | - | Rainfall of 1.52 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Harcourt | - | Rainfall of 1.65 inches in past 24 hours. |
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.
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 Harcourt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2017545 | The 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.






