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Le Roy, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Garden Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50123. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Le Roy within Decatur County

Population over time

2 figures

Le Roy fell from 15 to 11 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
201015
202011-4 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Le Roy between 2006 and 2013, burning about 244 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 January 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Roy in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$25,000no account filed
June 2019HailLe Roy-Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail and small limb damage. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2007HailLe Roy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Garden Grove3.6 miles7
Weldon7.7 miles7
High Point8.1 miles7
Van Wert10.6 miles7
Woodland12.5 miles7
Leon12.6 miles7
Kingston13.6 miles7
Decatur15.8 miles10

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 Le RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1908736The 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 458257. 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.

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.