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Huxley, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Palestine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50124. The Survey maps it on the Huxley quadrangle. 4,244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Huxley within Story County

Population over time

2 figures

Huxley grew from 3,317 to 4,244 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
20103,317
20204,244+927 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Huxley between 2011 and 2020, burning about 58 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
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2016Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesNEVADA FIRE DEPT.
26 April 2018Debris and open burning17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesCHRISTENSEN FOREST PRESERVE, HUXLEY, IA
6 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE/UNION TOWNSHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Story 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 Huxley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Central Iowa MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Story County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huxley in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHuxley2 hurt, $500,000no account filed
May 2018HailHuxley$50,000Large hail nearly tennis ball size was measured and reported in Huxley.
June 2015LightningHuxley$50,000Lightning struck a house in the Huxley area of Story County.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHuxley$45,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHuxley$25,000Widespread wind damage was reported around Huxley with up to 20 inch limbs down. A shed was blown through a parking lot.
June 2008Flash FloodHuxley$25,000One to two feet of water was reported over Interstate 35 near mile marker 106.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHuxley$25,000no account filed
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Huxley$15,000Tornado exhibited an intermittent track as it moved across northern Polk County into Story County. Peak damage included garage and a living room roof removed from a manufactured home. Tornado moved in from Polk County.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHuxley$15,000Considerable tree damage was reported.
May 2018HailHuxley$10,000Law enforcement relayed spotter reports of up to golf ball sized hail in Huxley.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHuxley$10,000Gust was estimated.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHuxley$10,000Large branches and power lines were reported down.
June 2011HailHuxley$10,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindHuxley$10,000no account filed
May 2018HailHuxley$5,000Public reported large hail in Huxley via social media.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHuxley$5,000Power lines down along Highway 69 near the Polk County line.
June 2011HailHuxley$5,000no account filed
March 2007HailHuxley$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailHuxley$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHuxley$3,000Power lines were down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHuxley$3,000The power was out in Huxley. Pea size hail was observed.
April 2002HailHuxley$3,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHuxley$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHuxley$2,000Power lines were reported down.
May 2002HailHuxley$2,000no account filed
April 2023HailHuxley-Emergency manager relayed report of silver dollar sized hail.
July 2023Heavy RainHuxley-Event total of 3.50 inches.
April 2022Heavy RainHuxley-Northwest of Huxley report of 3.5 inches of storm total rainfall since 10pm. Public report via social media.
April 2022Flash FloodHuxley-Social media picture of flash flooding in Huxley. water up to 10 inches deep with a stalled vehicle in town.
August 2016Heavy RainHuxley-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 5.00 inches.
June 2008HailHuxley-KCCI television relayed a report from the public of three-quarter inch hail in Huxley.
April 2023HailHuxley-no account filed
July 2008HailHuxley-no account filed
July 2006HailHuxley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Story 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
Midvale2.4 miles11
Cambridge3.8 miles11
Slater4.3 miles11
Kelley5.1 miles11
Sheldahl5.5 miles12
Shipley7.5 miles11
Robison-Whitaker Acres9.0 miles8
Ames9.7 miles16

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 HuxleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931905The 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 464176. 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.