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Kiron, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51448. It stands on East Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kiron quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Kiron within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Kiron fell from 279 to 267 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
2010279
2020267-12 (-4%)

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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kiron between 2009 and 2011, burning about 36 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/undetermined2

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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources4021 A? AVE, IA
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kiron: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiron in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2008HailKiron$50,000Softball size hail was reported by the Crawford County Sheriff.
December 2015FloodKiron$20,000Otter Creek was out of its banks near Kiron. Spotters also reported the Boyer River out of its banks across portions of the county.
June 2008Flash FloodKiron$10,000Otter Creek was out of its banks from Heavy Rain.
August 2004HailKiron$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailKiron$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailKiron$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailKiron$2,000no account filed
April 2023Funnel CloudKiron-Spotters reported a funnel cloud and were unsure of tornado development at time of report.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKiron-Law enforcement reported a semi jackknifed due to strong winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKiron-Trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph and reported tree branches down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKiron-Trained spotter reported corn flattened and small to mid-size tree branches down. Time radar estimated.
June 2016Heavy RainKiron-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches, and still raining at the time of the report.
June 2015HailKiron-no account filed
September 2004HailKiron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Boyer5.0 miles8
Schleswig6.2 miles8
Boyer River6.5 miles8
Deloit6.8 miles8
Vail11.4 miles8
Denison12.4 miles8
Sunset Village13.7 miles8
Ricketts13.9 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 KironAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1883283The 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 458112. 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.