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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.

Latimer within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Latimer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010507
2020477-30 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

27 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Tornado (EF1)Latimer$50,000The tornado damaged a barn roof and about a dozen trees on two farmsteads.
May 2013Flash FloodLatimer$25,000Water over Jonquil Ave about 1.5 miles north of Highway 3 due to flooding of Spring Creek.
July 2003HailLatimer$25,000no account filed
September 2018FloodLatimer$20,000Emergency manager reported flooding in and around town.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLatimer$20,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLatimer$20,000no account filed
July 2003HailLatimer$20,000no account filed
June 2018HailLatimer$10,000CoCoRaHS observer reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLatimer$10,000Law enforcement reported power lines down in Latimer. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLatimer$10,000Measured by a school net site.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLatimer$10,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLatimer$5,000Numerous 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLatimer$5,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLatimer$5,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLatimer$3,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLatimer$3,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLatimer$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLatimer$1,000no account filed
December 2021HailLatimer-Quarter sized hail reported at the highway 3 and interstate 35 interchange.
August 2018HailLatimer-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail on the north side of Latimer at about 1255 pm.
May 2017HailLatimer-Public reported golf ball sized hail via social media.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLatimer-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 2017HailLatimer-Public reported quarter sized hail via social media.
June 2017Flash FloodLatimer-Emergency manager reported flash flooding of streets in Latimer.
August 2016Heavy RainLatimer-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2015HailLatimer-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLatimer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Coulter1.8 miles9
Washington5.2 miles9
Alexander6.4 miles9
Reeve8.5 miles9
Hampton8.9 miles9
Chapin9.1 miles9
Bradford11.1 miles9
Popejoy12.1 miles9

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 LatimerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930297The 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.