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Kirkville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52566. The Survey maps it on the Kirkville quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Kirkville within Wapello County

Population over time

2 figures

Kirkville fell from 167 to 157 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
2010167
2020157-10 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kirkville between 2009 and 2018, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
20 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesTAMA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wapello County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kirkville: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B and M QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirkville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wapello QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wapello County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkville in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2007FloodKirkville$350,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKirkville$5,000Eight inch diameter trees were blown over. Dime size hail also fell.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKirkville$5,000Winds estimated between 60 and 70 MPH. Sixteen inch diameter trees blown down with numerous other branches broken.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindKirkville$3,000no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindKirkville-County Emergency Manager reported damage to out buildings and minor house damage along 160th Street north of Ottumwa.
May 2020HailKirkville-Emergency manager report of quarter sized hail.
June 2014HailKirkville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wapello 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
Chillicothe4.4 miles7
Keb (historical)4.9 miles9
Dudley6.1 miles7
Eddyville7.1 miles7
Rutledge7.3 miles9
Ottumwa Junction7.5 miles9
Phillips7.5 miles9
Highland Center8.1 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 KirkvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928698The 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 458108. 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.