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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.

Lehigh within Webster County

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 figures

Lehigh 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.

YearPeople Change
2010416
2020395-21 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2018

Regional 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 burning2

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
9 April 2019Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Black PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Herrington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hoover PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hudson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kelling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

32 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodLehigh$100,000Emergency 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 2010FloodLehigh$50,000no account filed
April 2010FloodLehigh$50,000no account filed
May 2011FloodLehigh$25,000no account filed
July 2010FloodLehigh$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailLehigh$25,000no account filed
February 2011FloodLehigh$10,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10,000no account filed
August 2010FloodLehigh$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailLehigh$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailLehigh$3,000no account filed
May 2006HailLehigh$3,000no account filed
July 2019Heavy RainLehigh-Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar.
April 2018HailLehigh-Public reported, via social media, up to quarter sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainLehigh-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 4.25 inches.
August 2015Heavy RainLehigh-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 6.5 inches measured from midnight through noon.
August 2014Tornado (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 2004Tornado (F0)Lehigh-Tornado was very small and remained in open country. The track of the tornado was very intermittent as well.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Lehigh-Brief touchdown in open field.
July 2011FloodLehigh-no account filed
April 2011FloodLehigh-no account filed
April 2011FloodLehigh-no account filed
June 2011FloodLehigh-no account filed
June 2010FloodLehigh-no account filed
June 2010FloodLehigh-no account filed
July 2010FloodLehigh-no account filed
February 2009FloodLehigh-no account filed
May 2008FloodLehigh-no account filed
May 2008FloodLehigh-no account filed
May 2006HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2006HailLehigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Border Plains2.6 miles11
Burnside3.1 miles11
Evanston5.1 miles11
Brushy5.4 miles11
Kalo6.5 miles11
Lundgren6.5 miles12
Otho6.9 miles11
Dayton6.9 miles11

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 LehighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930484The 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.