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Ledyard, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ledyard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50556. The Survey maps it on the Ledyard quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Ledyard within Kossuth County

Population over time

2 figures

Ledyard fell from 130 to 121 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
2010130
2020121-9 (-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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ledyard in 2010, burning about 1 acre 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/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
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources547740 190TH AVE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kossuth County

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 Ledyard: 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 Kossuth County

Storms near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ledyard in 11 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010HailLedyard$20,000no account filed
June 2010HailLedyard$15,000no account filed
July 2006HailLedyard$3,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLedyard$2,000Public relayed pictures via twitter of trees snapped and other tree damage in the Ledyard area. Time estimated by radar and this is a delayed report.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLedyard-Social media report of tree limbs down across Ledyard.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLedyard-Report via social media of several large tree limbs down in Ledyard.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLedyard-Several farm buildings damaged along highway 169. Delayed report, time estimated via radar.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLedyard-Public report of 65 mph wind with marble sized hail. Report relayed via social media.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLedyard-Public reports of downed limbs and power outages. Reports relayed via social media.
June 2010Funnel CloudLedyard-Reports of a violently rotating wall cloud with multiple brief funnels.
March 2005HailLedyard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kossuth 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
Gerled3.0 miles7
Moores Siding (historical)3.2 miles7
Lakota4.7 miles7
Stevens8.4 miles7
Swea City8.5 miles7
Bancroft9.4 miles7
Swea (historical)11.7 miles7
German Valley12.6 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 LedyardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913041The 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 458268. 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.