Latimer, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50452. The Survey maps it on the Latimer quadrangle. 477 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLatimer fell from 507 to 477 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 507 | |
| 2020 | 477 | -30 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Latimer quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Latimer: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latimer in 27 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Latimer | $50,000 | The tornado damaged a barn roof and about a dozen trees on two farmsteads. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Latimer | $25,000 | Water over Jonquil Ave about 1.5 miles north of Highway 3 due to flooding of Spring Creek. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Latimer | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Flood | Latimer | $20,000 | Emergency manager reported flooding in and around town. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Latimer | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Latimer | $10,000 | CoCoRaHS observer reported golf ball sized hail. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported power lines down in Latimer. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $10,000 | Measured by a school net site. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $5,000 | Numerous 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $1,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Hail | Latimer | - | Quarter sized hail reported at the highway 3 and interstate 35 interchange. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Latimer | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail on the north side of Latimer at about 1255 pm. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Latimer | - | Public reported golf ball sized hail via social media. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | - | Emergency manager reported very strong winds and had to pull off the road. Could not see across the parking lot. Estimated winds to be around 60 mph. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Latimer | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via social media. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Latimer | - | Emergency manager reported flash flooding of streets in Latimer. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Latimer | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | - | 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.
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 Latimer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930297 | 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 458237. 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.
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.



