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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.

Jolley within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Jolley 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.

YearPeople Change
201041
202028-13 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4 since 2010

Regional 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/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
22 May 2016Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWELL CITY FIRE DEPT
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2203 220TH ST., IA
29 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWELL CITY FIRE DEPT
7 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2208 220TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

24 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindJolley$25,000Several large trees were blown down across town. One tree fell on top of power lines, knocking them to the ground.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindJolley$10,000Damage reported to trees and outbuildings.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindJolley$10,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindJolley$10,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindJolley$5,000Six to 10 inch tree limbs down. Crop damage reported.
May 2005HailJolley$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindJolley$5,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindJolley$3,000no account filed
June 2000HailJolley$3,000no account filed
May 2005HailJolley$2,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindJolley$2,000no account filed
June 2010HailJolley$1,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJolley-Trees and power lines down as reported from emergency manager.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindJolley-The RWIS station at Rockwell City recorded a gust.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindJolley-Rockwell City RWIS recorded 73 mph wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJolley-Iowa DOT RWIS station recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
May 2014Heavy RainJolley-Rainfall of 1.98 inches in the past hour.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJolley-Measured at the Iowa Department of Transportation Road Weather Information Site.
September 2007Tornado (EF0)Jolley-Small rope tornado touched moved into Calhoun County from Sac County. It lifted west of Jolley.
July 2023HailJolley-no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindJolley-no account filed
May 2008HailJolley-no account filed
March 2007Funnel CloudJolley-no account filed
May 2001HailJolley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Knoke3.5 miles9
Twin Lakes4.4 miles8
Lavinia5.1 miles8
Pomeroy5.3 miles8
Rockwell City7.3 miles8
Sherwood8.3 miles8
Manson10.4 miles9
Richard10.6 miles8

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 JolleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931688The 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.