Hornick, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51026. It stands on Whiskey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hornick quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
On record in Hornick
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
Population over time
2 figuresHornick grew from 225 to 255 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 | 225 | |
| 2020 | 255 | +30 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Hornick quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hornick between 2008 and 2009, burning about 55 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 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 Hornick: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell-Steinhoff Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hornick in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds overturned several propane tanks. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, with a resulting power outage. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hornick | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | - | Four-inch tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts in Hornick. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Hornick | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads, including the area near the intersection of Highway 141 and road K64. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Hornick | - | Heavy rain caused minor flooding of West Fork Ditch, which crested at 1.71 feet above flood stage near Hornick on May 28th. Levees prevented flooding in Hornick. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Hornick | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Hornick | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hornick | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including numerous trees down. At least one tree fell on and damaged a house. Power lines were also blown down, resulting in power outages. The winds blew out two windows on a moving minivan just outside of Hornick, but the occupants of the van were not injured. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Hornick | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Hornick | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Owego | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sloan | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Climbing Hill | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Smithland | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Luton | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Salix | 11.4 miles | 11 | |
| Oto | 11.4 miles | 8 |
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 Hornick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931763 | 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 457662. 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.





