Lehigh, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sumner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50557. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lehigh quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.
On record in Lehigh
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresLehigh fell from 416 to 395 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 | 416 | |
| 2020 | 395 | -21 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1923 USGS Lehigh quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lehigh quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lehigh between 2018 and 2019, burning about 31 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lehigh: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Black Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Casey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Casey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Herrington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hoover Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hudson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kelling Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lehigh in 32 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 17 flood, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Lehigh | $100,000 | Emergency manager reported water over the road has resulted in the evacuation of 2 to 3 homes at Nelson Ave and Riverside Trail near Coalville. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lehigh | $25,000 | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lehigh | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lehigh | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lehigh | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lehigh | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lehigh | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Lehigh | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Lehigh | - | Public reported, via social media, up to quarter sized hail. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Lehigh | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 4.25 inches. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Lehigh | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 6.5 inches measured from midnight through noon. |
| August 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Lehigh | - | Tornado formed about 5 miles southeast of Lehigh and traveled through primarily wooded areas of the Des Moines river valley. Tree damage was noted as well as crop damage in a few fields it crossed through. The tornado then continued on into Hamilton county. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Lehigh | - | Tornado was very small and remained in open country. The track of the tornado was very intermittent as well. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Lehigh | - | Brief touchdown in open field. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lehigh | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lehigh | - | 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 Lehigh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930484 | 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 458277. 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.






