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Harvey, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50119. It stands on English Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Harvey within Marion County

On record in Harvey

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

Harvey grew from 235 to 236 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
2010235
2020236+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harvey in 2015, burning about 2 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 burning1

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
1 June 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Harvey: 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Durham Pelletizing PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Oskaloosa Clay Products Co. PitClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Durham MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Durham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Server QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
BattistelloSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvey in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 hail, 1 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
August 2010Flash FloodHarvey$50,000Six inches of water reported running through the streets of Harvey.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarvey$30,000A large tree was down on a power line.
June 2015HailHarvey$25,000Public report of measured hailstones around 4 inches in diameter. Photos were on twitter and the KCCI ulocal page. Time radar estimated.
June 2015HailHarvey$20,000Trained spotter report of 3 to 3.5 inch hail as storm passed over his home around 5pm.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHarvey$15,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarvey$10,000A large tree limb was down on a power line.
May 1996HailHarvey$10,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHarvey$5,000A few 6 to 10 inch tree limbs were blown down and two power poles were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvey$3,000Four to six inch tree limbs downed by high winds. Also, 2 inches of rain fell in an hour with English Creek out of its banks.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvey$2,000Large trees were blown down in a pasture.
July 2006HailHarvey$2,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHarvey$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Delayed report of large trees down and a silo destroyed south of Pella. Time of occurrence estimated by radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Relayed report of extensive tree damage in Harvey. Time estimated from radar.
July 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 1.25 inches between 2 and 3 pm.
September 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.25 inches.
July 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.75 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2013Heavy RainHarvey-Rainfall of 5.25 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2013Heavy RainHarvey-Rainfall 24 hour total as of 0600 CST was 1.98 inches.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Durham1.7 miles11
Tracy3.7 miles11
Howell (historical)5.0 miles11
Flagler5.2 miles11
Pershing5.7 miles11
Pella6.4 miles11
Attica7.7 miles10
Bussey8.0 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 HarveyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932033The 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 457308. 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.