BlockLaurel, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50141. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLaurel fell from 239 to 220 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 | 239 | |
| 2020 | 220 | -19 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Laurel quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grinnell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
11 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurel in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | Laurel | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laurel | $10,000 | Two one foot diameter trees were downed along with several large limbs. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Laurel | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail reported. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laurel | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laurel | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Laurel | - | Public report of a small funnel cloud received via social media. Time estimated. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Laurel | - | Imaged shared on social media. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Laurel | - | Image received via social media. Timing based on radar. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Laurel | - | Amateur radio operator in Laurel reported hail falling heavily, mostly penny size, shredding leaves off of trees. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Laurel | - | Brief funnel cloud observed along Highway 14. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Laurel | - | 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 Laurel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1847035 | 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 458239. 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.