Jolley, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50551. The Survey maps it on the Rockwell City quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJolley fell from 41 to 28 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 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 28 | -13 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Rockwell City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Jolley between 2010 and 2016, burning about 9 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 | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWELL CITY FIRE DEPT |
| 30 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2203 220TH ST., IA |
| 29 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWELL CITY FIRE DEPT |
| 7 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2208 220TH ST., IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jolley in 24 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $25,000 | Several large trees were blown down across town. One tree fell on top of power lines, knocking them to the ground. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $10,000 | Damage reported to trees and outbuildings. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $5,000 | Six to 10 inch tree limbs down. Crop damage reported. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Jolley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Jolley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Jolley | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Jolley | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | Trees and power lines down as reported from emergency manager. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | The RWIS station at Rockwell City recorded a gust. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | Rockwell City RWIS recorded 73 mph wind gust. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | Iowa DOT RWIS station recorded a 58 mph wind gust. |
| May 2014 | Heavy Rain | Jolley | - | Rainfall of 1.98 inches in the past hour. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | Measured at the Iowa Department of Transportation Road Weather Information Site. |
| September 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Jolley | - | Small rope tornado touched moved into Calhoun County from Sac County. It lifted west of Jolley. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Jolley | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jolley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Jolley | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Jolley | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Jolley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knoke | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Twin Lakes | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lavinia | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Pomeroy | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Rockwell City | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Sherwood | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Manson | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Richard | 10.6 miles | 8 |
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 Jolley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931688 | 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 457983. 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.
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.





