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Hartford, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50118. It stands on Butcher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 733 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

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Hartford within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

Hartford fell from 771 to 733 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
2010771
2020733-38 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hartford between 2014 and 2015, burning about 14 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 burning4

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 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hartford: 6 past producers. 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
Carlisle Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fritz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kibbey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Owens Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

59 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford in 59 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 flood, 15 heavy rain, 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail. 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 2011FloodHartford$500,000Water over Highway 5 between County Roads S31 and S23 reported by the IDOT.
June 2011FloodHartford$200,000no account filed
May 2011FloodHartford$100,000no account filed
June 2008FloodHartford$100,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHartford$80,000no account filed
May 2011FloodHartford$75,000no account filed
June 2010FloodHartford$75,000no account filed
July 2015Flash FloodHartford$50,000Public reported Iowa Highway 5 west of Hartford closed due to water flowing over the road. Delayed report and time estimated via radar.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindHartford$50,000Winds estimated at 65 to 70 MPH.
March 2010FloodHartford$50,000no account filed
July 2010FloodHartford$50,000no account filed
March 2008FloodHartford$50,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindHartford$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHartford$50,000no account filed
March 2009FloodHartford$25,000no account filed
March 2009FloodHartford$25,000no account filed
July 2008FloodHartford$25,000no account filed
May 2010FloodHartford$15,000no account filed
June 2008FloodHartford$10,000no account filed
July 2008FloodHartford$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHartford$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000Hartford Law Enforcement reported 60 MPH winds and heavy rain.
May 2000Tornado (F1)Hartford$5,000Moved from Warren County into Marrion County.
April 2009FloodHartford$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000no account filed
April 2001HailHartford$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailHartford$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHartford$3,000no account filed
May 2001HailHartford$3,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford$2,000Trained spotter reported 60 MPH wind gust and pea size hail east of Hartford.
September 2005HailHartford$2,000no account filed
March 2006HailHartford$1,000no account filed
November 2005HailHartford$1,000no account filed
April 2025HailHartford-Report via mping.
October 2024HailHartford-Report relayed via cocorahs.
July 2020Heavy RainHartford-Public report via social media of 2.4 inches of rain. Begin time estimated via radar.
June 2018Heavy RainHartford-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches from about 9 pm through 10:30 pm last night. This is a delayed report.
June 2018Heavy RainHartford-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.86 inches yesterday and overnight.
June 2018Heavy RainHartford-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.86 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2018Funnel CloudHartford-Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud.
July 2018Heavy RainHartford-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.75 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
April 2017Heavy RainHartford-CoCoRaHS observer reported 1.46 inches of rainfall over the past 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainHartford-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.36 inches.
August 2016Heavy RainHartford-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.97 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainHartford-CoCoRaHS reported heavy rainfall of 5.25 inches so far with moderate to heavy rain ongoing at time of report.
July 2015Heavy RainHartford-CoCoRaHS report of heavy rainfall of 5.96 inches for the day.
July 2015Heavy RainHartford-CoCoRaHS report of heavy rainfall of 2.6 inches over the last 2 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainHartford-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 5.41 inches.
September 2014Heavy RainHartford-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 5.41 inches.
April 2014Heavy RainHartford-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 1.94 inches.
June 2010Heavy RainHartford-Partial road closure on Highway 5 about one quarter mile east of Hartford due to water from Butcher Creek.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Hartford-Brief tornado touchdown in open fields.
June 2024HailHartford-no account filed
June 2014HailHartford-no account filed
June 2014HailHartford-no account filed
May 1997Tornado (F0)Hartford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Ford (historical)2.0 miles9
Palmyra2.4 miles9
Greenbush (historical)3.4 miles9
Carlisle5.4 miles11
Sandyville6.2 miles9
Beech6.5 miles9
Ackworth7.3 miles9
Summerset Junction (historical)7.5 miles11

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 HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1920650The 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 457295. 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.