BlockKnoke, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50575. The Survey maps it on the Fonda quadrangle. It stands 1,237 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
11 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knoke in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Knoke | $50,000 | Numerous vehicles were stranded in flooded streets in Rockwell City. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Knoke | $25,000 | Flooding along Highway D15 near Garber and Janesville Avenues. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoke | $10,000 | Several six to eight inch tree limbs were blown down. The top of a large tree was sheared off. Pea size hail was also observed. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoke | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Knoke | $1,000 | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail and estimated around one half inch of rain in the past 20 minutes. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Knoke | - | Brief tornado reported by storm chaser southwest of Fonda. No damage indicators were impacted, therefore the EFU rating. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Knoke | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail at their home. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Knoke | - | Public reported a funnel cloud via social media. |
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Knoke | - | Tornado touched down briefly in a field northwest of Jolley. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Knoke | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Knoke | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jolley | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pomeroy | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Twin Lakes | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Lavinia | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rockwell City | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Sherwood | 11.1 miles | 8 | |
| Manson | 12.2 miles | 9 | |
| Richard | 13.8 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 Knoke | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14689227 | 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 458132. 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.
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.