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Hinton, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hungerford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51024. It stands on Carter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hinton quadrangle. 935 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Hinton within Plymouth County

Population over time

2 figures

Hinton grew from 928 to 935 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
2010928
2020935+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hinton between 2006 and 2012, burning about 29 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/undetermined2
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
26 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hinton: 4 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
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Floyd S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Otto MaeskerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms near this place

46 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinton in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 29 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 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
April 2017HailHinton$125,000Numerous reports of large hail up to half dollar size caused plenty of damage mainly to windows of homes and vehicles.
June 1996HailHinton$100,000no account filed
April 2017HailHinton$75,000Hen egg to baseball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
March 2004Flash FloodHinton$20,000Heavy rain amounting to 6.25 inches caused flooding of basements. Water filled window wells and broke some windows. Water was over roads and other low areas.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHinton$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. A large tree was blown onto a house, damaging the house.
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Hinton$1,000A brief tornado caused tree damage, including up to 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHinton-Power lines and several trees were brought down by thunderstorm winds near the intersection of County Roads K22 and C60.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Hinton-Members of the Hinton Police Department witnessed a very brief touchdown in an open field. The storm produced no visible damage as to determine a rating.
June 2024FloodHinton-The Floyd River at James rose above flood stage the morning of June 23rd, cresting around 6.39 feet above flood stage (32.39 feet) on June 23rd. This crest is in the Major Stage and broke the previous record. The river then fell below flood stage on the afternoon of June 24th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Plymouth County.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHinton-Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHinton-Several larger limbs were broken off trees by thunderstorm winds.
August 2020HailHinton-Pea to penny size hail fell with little wind.
March 2019FloodHinton-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 1.52 inches near Le Mars) resulted in significant flooding of agricultural lands, as well as county road C70. The Floyd River at James (gage site JMEI4) reached the highest stage on record cresting 5.48 feet above flood stage on March 15.
September 2018FloodHinton-Widespread rainfall from September 18-20 totaled generally 2 to 5 inches, resulting in minor flooding. Impacts were generally limited to flooding of crop and pasture lands along the river as the Floyd River at James (gage site JMEI4) crested at 1.7 feet above flood stage on September 22, which was the fourth highest crest on record.
April 2017HailHinton-Hail up to the size of golf balls occurred with the storm resulting in a few broken windshields.
July 2010HailHinton-Hail varied from pea to half dollar size.
July 2005HailHinton-Large hail covered the ground.
May 2004HailHinton-Large hail was mostly nickel size with a few golf ball size hailstones.
June 2003Flash FloodHinton-Heavy rainfall caused Perry Creek to rise quickly to just over its banks. Other low places including some roads were also flooded.
May 2002Flash FloodHinton-Area fields and low places on roads were flooded after heavy rain.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHinton-Thunderstorm winds combined with heavy rain to cause severe crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
April 2025HailHinton-no account filed
April 2025HailHinton-no account filed
May 2023HailHinton-no account filed
August 2020HailHinton-no account filed
September 2019HailHinton-no account filed
May 2016HailHinton-no account filed
April 2013HailHinton-no account filed
March 2007HailHinton-no account filed
August 2005HailHinton-no account filed
August 2005HailHinton-no account filed
September 2005HailHinton-no account filed
September 2005HailHinton-no account filed
May 2004HailHinton-no account filed
August 2004HailHinton-no account filed
August 2004HailHinton-no account filed
August 2003HailHinton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHinton-no account filed
September 2002HailHinton-no account filed
May 2002HailHinton-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHinton-no account filed
June 2001HailHinton-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHinton-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHinton-no account filed
May 1998HailHinton-no account filed
May 1998HailHinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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
Wren1.3 miles9
James3.8 miles12
Potosia4.9 miles9
Merrill6.7 miles10
Yeomans7.2 miles12
Neptune7.6 miles10
Plymouth (historical)8.4 miles10
Brookdale (historical)9.3 miles12

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 HintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1846529The 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 457521. 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.