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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.

Hornick within Woodbury County

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 figures

Hornick 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.

YearPeople Change
2010225
2020255+30 (+13%)

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 2008

Regional 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/undetermined3

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
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mitchell-Steinhoff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHornick$25,000Thunderstorm winds overturned several propane tanks. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHornick$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, with a resulting power outage.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHornick$10,000no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindHornick$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles.
June 1994HailHornick$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHornick-Four-inch tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts in Hornick.
July 2015Flash FloodHornick-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads, including the area near the intersection of Highway 141 and road K64.
May 2013FloodHornick-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 2004Tornado (F0)Hornick-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Hornick-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHornick-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 2022HailHornick-no account filed
July 2008HailHornick-no account filed
June 2008HailHornick-no account filed
July 2003HailHornick-no account filed
June 2003HailHornick-no account filed
June 2003HailHornick-no account filed
June 2001HailHornick-no account filed
July 1997HailHornick-no account filed
June 1997HailHornick-no account filed
June 1996HailHornick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Holly Springs3.0 miles9
Owego4.5 miles9
Sloan6.9 miles9
Climbing Hill7.7 miles9
Smithland8.8 miles8
Luton10.2 miles9
Salix11.4 miles11
Oto11.4 miles8

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 HornickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931763The 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.