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.
Population over time
2 figuresHuxley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,317 | |
| 2020 | 4,244 | +927 (+28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1911 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Huxley quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2011Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | NEVADA FIRE DEPT. |
| 26 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | CHRISTENSEN FOREST PRESERVE, HUXLEY, IA |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE/UNION TOWNSHIP |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Iowa Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
34 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | 2 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Huxley | $50,000 | Large hail nearly tennis ball size was measured and reported in Huxley. |
| June 2015 | Lightning | Huxley | $50,000 | Lightning struck a house in the Huxley area of Story County. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $45,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $25,000 | Widespread wind damage was reported around Huxley with up to 20 inch limbs down. A shed was blown through a parking lot. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Huxley | $25,000 | One to two feet of water was reported over Interstate 35 near mile marker 106. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Huxley | $15,000 | Tornado 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $15,000 | Considerable tree damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Huxley | $10,000 | Law enforcement relayed spotter reports of up to golf ball sized hail in Huxley. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $10,000 | Gust was estimated. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $10,000 | Large branches and power lines were reported down. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Huxley | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Huxley | $5,000 | Public reported large hail in Huxley via social media. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $5,000 | Power lines down along Highway 69 near the Polk County line. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Huxley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Huxley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Huxley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $3,000 | Power lines were down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $3,000 | The power was out in Huxley. Pea size hail was observed. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Huxley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $2,000 | Power lines were reported down. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Huxley | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Huxley | - | Emergency manager relayed report of silver dollar sized hail. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Huxley | - | Event total of 3.50 inches. |
| April 2022 | Heavy Rain | Huxley | - | Northwest of Huxley report of 3.5 inches of storm total rainfall since 10pm. Public report via social media. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Huxley | - | Social media picture of flash flooding in Huxley. water up to 10 inches deep with a stalled vehicle in town. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Huxley | - | Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 5.00 inches. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Huxley | - | KCCI television relayed a report from the public of three-quarter inch hail in Huxley. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Huxley | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Huxley | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Huxley | - | 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.
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 Huxley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931905 | 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 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.







