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.
Population over time
2 figuresJoice 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 208 | -14 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Fertile quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulveness Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Joice | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Joice | $50,000 | Water 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 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Joice | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Joice | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joice | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joice | $5,000 | Trees down partially blocking the road near the intersection of Willow and Main Street. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Joice | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Joice | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Joice | - | 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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Joice | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.00 inches via social media. Times radar estimated. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Joice | - | Rainfall of 4.7 inches through the morning hours. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Joice | - | Rainfall of 3.50 inches recorded. |
| August 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Joice | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Somber | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Lansrud | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Hanlontown | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fertile | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Silver Lake | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Kensett | 12.9 miles | 7 | |
| Northwood | 13.6 miles | 7 |
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 Joice | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931620 | 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 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.




