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Ida Grove, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Corwin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51445. It stands on Odebolt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ida Grove quadrangle. 2,051 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Ida Grove within Ida County

On record in Ida Grove

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

Ida Grove fell from 2,142 to 2,051 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
20102,142
20202,051-91 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ida Grove between 2011 and 2015, burning about 222 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/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
30 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined220 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources5358 240TH ST. BATTLE CREEK, IA 51006, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ida 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 Ida Grove: 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ida County

Storms near this place

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ida Grove in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 21 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$500,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$5,000A stationary frontal system remained just to the northwest of Iowa. The airmass was extremely unstable with convective available potential energy between 5000 and 6000 J-Kg-1 over the northwest part of Iowa. Feeding into the area was an area of dew point temperatures between 75 and 80 degrees. This set the stage for explosive thunderstorm development. A small area of thunderstorms fired up over northwest Iowa in Woodbury County. As the evening progressed, a HP Supercell developed over the western part of the county and remained nearly stationary for several hours. Actually the cell would drift slightly northeast with the environmental winds, then back-develop over the same area. This resulted in flash flooding over a part of Woodbury County as around 5 inches of rain fell in two to three hours time. The cell spawned numerous funnel clouds and one tornado. The tornado touched down northwest of Salix, then drifted slowly southeast. Damage occurred in the Salix area. First to be hit was in the rural areas northwest of town, where several grain bins were destroyed. As the tornado moved into the city, two houses were damaged and two others destroyed. A full size car was lifted and carried from a driveway, then deposited on its top. Damage estimates were in the $200,000 range. Fortunately, there were no injuries or deaths reported. The tornado was actually visible for nearly two hours. In all probability, this was a family of tornadoes from the parent supercell. Other than the one cell, severe weather was rather spotty even though the storms developed into a bow configuration. Sixty to 70 MPH winds were reported southeast of Le Mars as the gust front passed. High winds downed power lines in Onawa. The storms acted very much like the storms of the previous night. A well defined outflow boundary was depicted on the WSR-88D radar at Des Moines. The boundary advanced during the night until it was about 100 miles ahead of the complex by sunrise. This cut off the inflow to the storms. Lightning damage was reported in Sioux City. In one strike, a garage was struck by lightning causing minor damage. Later, a house was struck in town. The house was set on fire.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$2,000Thunderstorm winds lifted an empty 11 thousand bushel metal grain bin from its concrete base, and dropped it in a nearby field, destroying it.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindIda Grove$1,000Several large tree limbs were strewn across Highway 59. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Thunderstorm wind gusts brought down numerous large tree limbs, with several trees snapped or uprooted.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Several power lines and tree branches were reported down across the city.
June 2021HailIda Grove-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
March 2019FloodIda Grove-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 0.77 inches 3 miles northeast of Battle Creek and 1.42 inches 4 miles south southeast of Arthur) resulted in significant flooding of agricultural lands. Levees in Ida Grove were nearly topped. Iowa Highway 175 was closed between Ida Grove and Battle Creek due to water flowing over the roadway. The Maple River at Ida Grove (gage site MIGI4) reached the highest stage on record cresting 9.76 feet above flood stage on March 14.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-A couple of trees were taken down by thunderstorm winds, along with flattening of corn.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Several large trees were blown down around town.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large limbs blown down. The winds also blew down at least two power lines.
July 2010Flash FloodIda Grove-Heavy rain caused flooding of local creeks, including Odebolt Creek. Several low areas and some roads were flooded.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
June 2010Flash FloodIda Grove-Heavy rainfall of 5 to 7 inches caused flash flooding of numerous streets and several basements.
June 2004HailIda Grove-Large hail damaged vehicles and crops. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2003Flash FloodIda Grove-Heavy rain caused rapid flooding of county roads and fields.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Ida Grove-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
April 2022HailIda Grove-no account filed
April 2022HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2021HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2021HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2020HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2020HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2020HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2020HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2020HailIda Grove-no account filed
April 2011HailIda Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailIda Grove-no account filed
August 2004HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailIda Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailIda Grove-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-no account filed
August 2001HailIda Grove-no account filed
April 1999HailIda Grove-no account filed
April 1999HailIda Grove-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIda Grove-no account filed
June 1998HailIda Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ida 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
Arthur6.6 miles8
Battle Creek7.0 miles9
Holstein10.7 miles8
Galva11.5 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 Ida GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994821The 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 457744. 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.