Hayesville, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in West Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52562. The Survey maps it on the Sigourney quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
On record in Hayesville
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
- Hayesville Independent Schoollisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresHayesville fell from 50 to 41 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 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -9 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Sigourney quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hayesville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 202ND AVE & 149 HIGHWAY, IOWA |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 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 Hayesville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayesville in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hayesville | $30,000 | Also 1 West of Hayesville; heavy damage to a grain silo with power poles snapped in half. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Hayesville | - | The North Skunk River at Sigourney rose above the major flood stage of 21 feet around 1AM on December 16 and fell back below 21 feet on the 16th around 6PM. The river crested at 21.1 feet at 1043 AM on December 16. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Hayesville | - | Heavy rain during the last week of May caused a rapid rise on the Skunk River to the south of Sigourney. The river rose above the major flood stage of 21 feet early in the morning of the 28th and fell below major flood stage on the mid morning of the 31st. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hayesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lanscaster | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Nugent | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Sigourney | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Delta | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Martinsburg | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Hedrick | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Ioka (historical) | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Atwood (historical) | 9.3 miles | 7 |
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 Hayesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932339 | 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 457351. 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.





