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.
Population over time
2 figuresHolland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 282 | |
| 2020 | 269 | -13 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Holland quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | FRED ABELS, 20902 J AVE, HOLLAND, IOWA |
| 5 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 19000 BLOCK L AVE, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowers Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Grundy Center Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Holland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Holland | $450,000 | Many county roads closed due to flooding. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holland | $100,000 | At 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holland | $50,000 | Shingle debris flying in the wind along with golf ball size hail. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Holland | $25,000 | Water 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holland | $10,000 | Public reported outbuilding blown apart. Report via social media and is a delayed report. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holland | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holland | $3,000 | Large trees were uprooted. |
| August 2025 | Tornado (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 2023 | Hail | Holland | - | Quarter sized hail accompanied by 60 mph wind gusts from Wellsburg to Grundy Center area. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Holland | - | Delayed report via social media of ping pong ball sized hail north of Grundy Center. Time estimated by radar. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Holland | - | Pea to quarter sized hail falling north of Holland. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Holland | - | A 24 hour rain total of 4.5 inches. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Holland | - | Broadcast media reported nickel sized hail. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Holland | - | Several brief touchdowns in open fields around the Holland area. Track was very intermittent. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Holland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grundy Center | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Fern | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Morrison | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Buck Grove | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Wellsburg | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ivester | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lear | 9.5 miles | 9 |
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 Holland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954520 | 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 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.



