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Humboldt, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Humboldt City. It lies in ZIP code area 50548. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt quadrangle. 4,792 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Humboldt within Humboldt County

On record in Humboldt

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Humboldt grew from 4,690 to 4,792 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
20104,690
20204,792+102 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hodges Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Humboldt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rutland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Frank Gotch State ParkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Humboldt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Humboldt Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 1997HailHumboldt$100,000no account filed
March 2007FloodHumboldt$50,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$40,000no account filed
May 1998HailHumboldt$25,000no account filed
June 1997HailHumboldt$25,000no account filed
April 2007FloodHumboldt$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$10,000no account filed
August 2004HailHumboldt$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$10,000no account filed
July 2003HailHumboldt$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailHumboldt$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailHumboldt$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailHumboldt$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$4,000no account filed
May 2005HailHumboldt$3,000no account filed
April 2001HailHumboldt$3,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$2,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$2,000no account filed
April 2001HailHumboldt$2,000no account filed
May 2005HailHumboldt$1,000no account filed
August 2004Tornado (F0)Humboldt-Tornado touched down in open fields north of Humboldt and caused little damage.
May 2006HailHumboldt-no account filed
September 2006HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2005HailHumboldt-no account filed
July 2000HailHumboldt-no account filed
September 1999HailHumboldt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Dakota City1.0 miles11
Jones Siding2.8 miles11
Rutland5.1 miles8
Arnold6.3 miles8
Unique6.9 miles8
Thor9.1 miles12
Livermore10.3 miles8
Pioneer City10.5 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 HumboldtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q264605The 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 457717. 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.

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.