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Larchwood, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Larchwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51241. The Survey maps it on the Larchwood quadrangle. 926 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Larchwood within Lyon County

On record in Larchwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Larchwood grew from 866 to 926 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
2010866
2020926+60 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Larchwood between 2010 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 September 2020Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1243 BUCHANAN AVE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Larchwood: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Dieters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maudlin KlondikeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scott Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stensland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larchwood in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1993Tornado (F2)Larchwood$500,000Border Crosser, went into Minnehaha County, SD at 1500CST. Intense thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front. This line was the first wave of storms to form. The bulk of the severe weather passed to the west and north of Iowa. One very large cell formed over the northwest corner of the state. It produced a tornado northwest of Larchwood, in the northwest corner of Lyon County. Buildings were damaged on three farms. A total of 10 buildings were destroyed as well as two silos. On one of the farms, the owner watched as a 1500 pound fertilizer tank was lifted 50 feet into the air and blew past his window. Total damage to the three farmsteads affected amounted to about $200,000. The only injury that occurred was to a bull on one of the farms. The bull sustained a broken leg. The tornado passed into southeast South Dakota shortly after this damage occurred. It was a border crossing tornado.
August 2021HailLarchwood$300,000Multiple pictures received of very large hail around Larchwood. Hail size ranged from tennis ball to as much as 4 inches in diameter. Several cars and houses reported to have all windows broken out. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLarchwood$30,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLarchwood$20,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed an empty 300,000 bushel grain storage bin, and a large wooden storage shed under construction. The winds also caused tree damage.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLarchwood$10,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLarchwood$300Thunderstorm winds blew down a two-foot diameter tree.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLarchwood-Large branches were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021HailLarchwood-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLarchwood-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
April 2021HailLarchwood-no account filed
April 2021HailLarchwood-no account filed
August 2021HailLarchwood-no account filed
August 2016HailLarchwood-no account filed
September 2015HailLarchwood-no account filed
June 2013HailLarchwood-no account filed
April 2010HailLarchwood-no account filed
June 2008HailLarchwood-no account filed
April 2007HailLarchwood-no account filed
April 2005HailLarchwood-no account filed
May 2005HailLarchwood-no account filed
May 2005HailLarchwood-no account filed
August 2005HailLarchwood-no account filed
September 2005HailLarchwood-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLarchwood-no account filed
September 2004HailLarchwood-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLarchwood-no account filed
August 2002HailLarchwood-no account filed
June 2001HailLarchwood-no account filed
June 2001HailLarchwood-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLarchwood-no account filed
June 1999HailLarchwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Lester5.4 miles7
Klondike6.5 miles10
Granite6.6 miles10
Inwood10.1 miles7
Alvord10.4 miles7
Rock Rapids13.8 miles7
Beloit14.0 miles11
Lakewood Corner15.6 miles7

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 LarchwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928634The 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 458230. 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.