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.
Population over time
2 figuresLedyard 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 130 | |
| 2020 | 121 | -9 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Ledyard quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 547740 190TH AVE, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Hail | Ledyard | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Ledyard | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ledyard | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | $2,000 | Public 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | - | Social media report of tree limbs down across Ledyard. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | - | Report via social media of several large tree limbs down in Ledyard. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | - | Several farm buildings damaged along highway 169. Delayed report, time estimated via radar. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | - | Public report of 65 mph wind with marble sized hail. Report relayed via social media. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ledyard | - | Public reports of downed limbs and power outages. Reports relayed via social media. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ledyard | - | Reports of a violently rotating wall cloud with multiple brief funnels. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Ledyard | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerled | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Moores Siding (historical) | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Lakota | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Stevens | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Swea City | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Bancroft | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Swea (historical) | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| German Valley | 12.6 miles | 7 |
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 Ledyard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1913041 | 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 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.



