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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.

Kirkman within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Kirkman 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.

YearPeople Change
201064
202056-8 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

9 since 2007

Regional 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 use3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2014Debris and open burning340 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use130 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKirkman$20,000Shed destroyed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKirkman$20,000Chicken house roof and two shop doors destroyed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKirkman-A 65 miles per hour wind gust was measured one a personal weather station.
August 2011HailKirkman-Hail at least golf ball-size broke windshields and caused damage to some homes and trees along with shredding crops in the area.
April 2005HailKirkman-no account filed
June 1997HailKirkman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Irwin5.4 miles8
Red Line6.1 miles8
Harlan6.1 miles8
Westphalia6.9 miles8
Defiance7.8 miles8
Jacksonville8.4 miles8
Earling8.7 miles8
Fiscus9.2 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 KirkmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1919708The 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.