Kirkman, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51447. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKirkman fell from 64 to 56 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 | 64 | |
| 2020 | 56 | -8 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Kirkman between 2007 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 340 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 130 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkman in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 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 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirkman | $20,000 | Shed destroyed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirkman | $20,000 | Chicken house roof and two shop doors destroyed. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirkman | - | A 65 miles per hour wind gust was measured one a personal weather station. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Kirkman | - | Hail at least golf ball-size broke windshields and caused damage to some homes and trees along with shredding crops in the area. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kirkman | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Kirkman | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irwin | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Red Line | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Harlan | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Westphalia | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Defiance | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Jacksonville | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Earling | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Fiscus | 9.2 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 Kirkman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1919708 | 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 458107. 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.




