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Leland, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Forest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50453. The Survey maps it on the Forest City quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Leland within Winnebago County

Population over time

2 figures

Leland fell from 289 to 249 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
2010289
2020249-40 (-14%)

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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Leland between 2006 and 2015, burning about 12 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources13651 HWY 69, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leland: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Leland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLeland$100,000Several power lines and trees down throughout town. Leland without electricity.
July 2013FloodLeland$25,000A sink hole developed near 190th and 420th due to heavy rain.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLeland$25,000no account filed
June 2018HailLeland$20,000Trained spotter reported up to 2.5 inch diameter hail.
June 2018HailLeland$20,000Public reported up to 2 inch diameter hail.
June 2008Flash FloodLeland$20,000Water was reported over the road near 180th and 370th streets.
June 2018Tornado (EF1)Leland$15,000A weak tornado developed northeast of Forest City staying in rural areas. The tornado was captured on video from several different angles. While the condensation funnel did not extend to the ground for much of its path, video clear shows debris and dust being picked up by the surface circulation. The tornado snapped power transmission poles along with damage to crops as it remained over agricultural land for the duration of its path.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLeland$10,000County dispatch reported multiple trees down and power line damage in town. This is delayed report and time estimated from radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLeland$10,000Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines down.
July 2010HailLeland$5,000A few stones to the size of ping pong balls. Most were smaller.
August 1994HailLeland$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLeland$2,000no account filed
June 2025HailLeland-Delayed report of golf ball sized hail in Leland.
September 2024Funnel CloudLeland-Delayed report. Video of a brief funnel cloud near Leland.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLeland-Farm implement garage destroyed. Report via KIMT tv.
May 2017HailLeland-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail ongoing at the time of the report.
September 2016Heavy RainLeland-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 3.03 inches.

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Ratna (historical)4.3 miles8
Forest City5.2 miles7
Thompson7.7 miles7
Lake Mills7.8 miles7
Scarville9.2 miles7
Vinje9.6 miles7
Amund (historical)12.6 miles7
Norman (historical)12.9 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 LelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914012The 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 458286. 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.