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Holland, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50642. It stands on Holland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holland quadrangle. 269 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Holland within Grundy County

Population over time

2 figures

Holland fell from 282 to 269 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
2010282
2020269-13 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Holland between 2009 and 2013, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning1
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
14 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesFRED ABELS, 20902 J AVE, HOLLAND, IOWA
5 October 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources19000 BLOCK L AVE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grundy County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Holland: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bowers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grundy Center PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grundy County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
May 2013Flash FloodHolland$450,000Many county roads closed due to flooding.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHolland$100,000At 9:45 p.m on 8/31 in Grundy County, Iowa just south of County HWY D25 on J Ave our farm lost 3/4 of it's machine shed roof on the SE side. Part of the roof landed straight east short of 300 ft to 400 ft down driveway and the other part west in front of the shed but on the NE side. More steel was to the NE about 300 ft to 400 ft and just missed our house. The steel bent over the cable dish. There was insulation splattered all over the garage and house to the NE of where roof went off and both garage doors were damaged.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHolland$50,000Shingle debris flying in the wind along with golf ball size hail.
March 2008FloodHolland$25,000Water blocked at a culvert forced water onto Highway 14. Highway 175 also had water backed onto the road surface. Traffic was allowed to pass.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHolland$10,000Public reported outbuilding blown apart. Report via social media and is a delayed report.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHolland$5,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHolland$3,000Large trees were uprooted.
August 2025Tornado (EFU)Holland-Drone imagery provided by the emergency manager and satellite imagery revealed a track in agricultural fields. No DIs were impacted, resulting in an EF-U rating.
July 2023HailHolland-Quarter sized hail accompanied by 60 mph wind gusts from Wellsburg to Grundy Center area.
August 2022HailHolland-Delayed report via social media of ping pong ball sized hail north of Grundy Center. Time estimated by radar.
August 2022HailHolland-Pea to quarter sized hail falling north of Holland.
August 2021Heavy RainHolland-A 24 hour rain total of 4.5 inches.
June 2018HailHolland-Broadcast media reported nickel sized hail.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Holland-Several brief touchdowns in open fields around the Holland area. Track was very intermittent.
May 2000HailHolland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grundy 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
Grundy Center3.1 miles9
Fern6.1 miles9
Lincoln7.6 miles9
Morrison7.7 miles9
Buck Grove8.4 miles9
Wellsburg8.4 miles9
Ivester8.6 miles9
Lear9.5 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 HollandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954520The 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 457555. 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.