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Joice, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50446. The Survey maps it on the Fertile quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.

Joice within Worth County

Population over time

2 figures

Joice fell from 222 to 208 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
2010222
2020208-14 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Joice between 2006 and 2020, burning about 109 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5

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
26 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Joice: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Ulveness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joice in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1998Tornado (F1)Joice$150,000no account filed
July 2013Flash FloodJoice$50,000Water was about 6 inches deep and flowing over the main street near Lindon Street in Joice. Total rainfall from 0845 through 1100 was 4.75 inches.
August 1999Tornado (F2)Joice$50,000no account filed
May 2000HailJoice$20,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindJoice$10,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindJoice$5,000Trees down partially blocking the road near the intersection of Willow and Main Street.
April 2004HailJoice$2,000no account filed
August 2004HailJoice$1,000no account filed
August 2022Heavy RainJoice-A personal weather station recorded a 24 hour rainfall total of 6.55 inches. Of that, 5.94 inches fell after midnight and it was still raining at the time of the report.
June 2016Heavy RainJoice-Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.00 inches via social media. Times radar estimated.
July 2013Heavy RainJoice-Rainfall of 4.7 inches through the morning hours.
May 2013Heavy RainJoice-Rainfall of 3.50 inches recorded.
August 1996Funnel CloudJoice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Bristol3.5 miles7
Somber5.0 miles7
Lansrud6.2 miles7
Hanlontown6.9 miles7
Fertile7.0 miles7
Silver Lake9.4 miles7
Kensett12.9 miles7
Northwood13.6 miles7

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 JoiceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931620The 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 457979. 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.