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Herndon, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50026. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Herndon within Guthrie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Herndon between 2009 and 2012, burning about 5 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources424 NORTH ST., IA
23 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 4 AND HWY 141, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Herndon: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

23 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herndon in 23 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 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 2014Thunderstorm WindHerndon$50,000Power poles broken and lines down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHerndon$25,000A garage was destroyed. Garage doors were open and the wind lifted the garage off the foundation and rolled it east into grain bins, damaging the bins as well. Two power poles were snapped along Highway 4 just south of the garage.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHerndon$15,000Emergency manager reported numerous trees down at the property. The largest was about 14 inches in diameter. A tree branch left a hole in the roof of the residence. Time estimated from radar.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHerndon$15,000Large tree limbs down, one causing damage to porch.
April 2009Flash FloodHerndon$15,000Water was reported over roads in the county.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHerndon$15,000Power lines and trees were downed.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHerndon$10,000Guthrie County emergency manager reported large trees down in Yale, blocking several streets.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHerndon$10,000Semi truck on Highway 141 tipped over by very strong winds.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHerndon$10,000Live wires were reported down.
May 2010HailHerndon$5,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHerndon$3,000Large branches snapped off of healthy tree.
August 2012HailHerndon$3,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHerndon$2,000Two to four inch diameter limbs blown down in Yale.
June 2015HailHerndon$2,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHerndon$1,000Emergency manager reported flag pole blown over. Time estimated from radar.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHerndon$1,000Eight inch diameter tree limb down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHerndon-Public report of an outbuilding destroyed.
July 2017HailHerndon-Emergency manager reported nickel sized hail.
March 2016HailHerndon-Public reported quarter sized hail in Yale, and was relayed via the Emergency Manager.
June 2015HailHerndon-Amateur radio report of quarter size hail ongoing at the time of the report.
August 2012HailHerndon-Reported at the intersection of Highway 4 and 141.
June 2015HailHerndon-no account filed
June 2015HailHerndon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Jamaica2.1 miles10
Bagley4.3 miles10
Yale4.8 miles10
Fanslers8.7 miles11
Lake Panorama9.5 miles11
Panora10.6 miles11
Bayard11.1 miles9
Guthrie Center14.2 miles9

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 HerndonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892293The 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 457403. 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.