Hepburn, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51632. The Survey maps it on the Clarinda North quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.
On record in Hepburn
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
- McCoy Polygonal Barnlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresHepburn grew from 23 to 26 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 | 23 | |
| 2020 | 26 | +3 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Clarinda North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hepburn between 2008 and 2012, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1171 WILLOW AVE, IA |
| 16 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | S. OF 137TH ST. JUST W. OF HEPBURN, IA |
| 24 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 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 Hepburn: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villisca Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hepburn in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 flood, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flood | Hepburn | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused the Nodaway River to flood near the Clarinda area. The river at Clarinda reached a crest a little over 24.5 feet early in the morning of June 4, flood stage is 23 feet. The flooding impacted a few county roads and farmland along the river. |
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Hepburn | - | The office received a report from broadcast media of a large funnel cloud 4 miles west of Hepburn. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Hepburn | - | This tornado started at the intersection of 110th Street and Vine Avenue. As it developed and tracked northeast, it broke branches off of trees and tore the roof off a farm outbuilding on Willow Avenue. The tornado briefly crossed into Taylor County just south of the Montgomery-Page Street and Tailor-Paige Avenue intersection before tracking into Adams County where it would go on to produce EF-4 damage. The peak winds in the Page County segment of this track were estimated to be at 100 miles per hour. The max width in Page County was measured to be at 85 yards, with an average width estimated at 60 yards. There were no casualties in Page County, though there were 5 fatalities and 35 injuries in the Des Moines NWS CWA. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hepburn | - | The office received a public report of damage to trees 5 miles east of Hepburn, Iowa. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Hepburn | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail south of Hepburn. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Hepburn | - | Several county roads were reported flooded across the County. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Hepburn | - | Heavy rainfall over a two-day period in mid December brought the Nodaway River above flood stage. The crest reached 24.83 feet in the early afternoon hours of December 14th. This was 1.83 feet above flood stage. Flooding was confined to low agricultural areas along the river. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Hepburn | - | Rainfall of over 2 inches in an hour or so produced flash flooding across Highway 71 northeast of Hepburn. Yorktown reported 2.1 inches of rain from the storm, with similar type rainfall recorded the previous day. Yorktown is about 7 miles southwest of Hepburn. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Hepburn | - | Two consecutive days of heavy rains caused the Nodaway River to flood in Page county for the second time within a week. At Clarinda the Nodaway River crested 20.1 feet at 1115 pm CDT on 6/8, flood stage is 19 feet. The river was above flood stage from around 545 pm on 6/8 until 530 am on 6/9. The flooding affected mainly agricultural lowlands. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Hepburn | - | A week of heavy rain producing thunderstorms through June 11th fell across the Nodaway River basin in southwest Iowa. The heavy rain caused flooding along the Nodaway River from around Villisca downstream through Clarinda to around Braddyville. The river at Clarinda reached a 22.7 foot crest at 430pm CDT on June 12, flood stage is 19 feet. The river fell below flood stage at Clarinda during the early morning hours of June 13th. The flooding closed several county roads and also flooded farm fields in eastern Page county. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hepburn | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down power poles near town. |
| October 2007 | Flood | Hepburn | - | Heavy rain from Friday October 12th through Sunday night October 14th produced flooding along the Nodaway River from north of Hepburn through Clarinda and then to south of Shambaugh. ||The river at Clarinda was above its 19 foot flood stage from around 130 am CDT on the 15th until 515 am on the 16th. The crest at Clarinda was 24.5 feet at 530 pm CDT on the 15th. The river flooded farmlands along the river as it broke through temporary dikes that under repair from early May 2007 flooding. County roads were also flooded and some damage was noted. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Hepburn | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Highway 71 near the Page and Montgomery county line which washed a car off the highway. Rain amounts were around 2 to 3 inches this evening. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Hepburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hepburn | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Hepburn | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hawleyville | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Clarinda | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Dayton (historical) | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Nyman | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Yorktown | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Page Center | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Tarkio City (historical) | 12.4 miles | 12 |
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 Hepburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931974 | 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 457401. 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.





