Lidderdale, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51452. The Survey maps it on the Carroll East quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,237 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLidderdale fell from 180 to 166 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 | 180 | |
| 2020 | 166 | -14 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Carroll East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lidderdale between 2006 and 2018, burning about 182 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | LIDDERDALE FD |
| 26 April 2014 | Smoking | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 410 E CENTRAL ST., LIDDERDALE, IA, IA |
| 8 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | LIDDERDALE |
| 26 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 190TH & TIMBER AVE, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lidderdale: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Pit Dredge and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lanesboro Pits 1 and 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mcclue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pound Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lidderdale in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Lightning | Lidderdale | $300,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Lidderdale | $25,000 | Street flooding was reported in town. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidderdale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lidderdale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidderdale | $5,000 | Multiple four to six inch diameter branches down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidderdale | $5,000 | Trees 14 to 16 inch in diameter down. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lidderdale | $5,000 | Penny to ping pong ball size hail was reported. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lidderdale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lidderdale | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Lidderdale | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Lidderdale | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Lidderdale | $1,000 | A moist and very unstable air mass was in place across Iowa. Lifted indices were in the -12° C. range by the early afternoon hours. Surface temperatures reached the middle to upper 80s with dew point readings in the lower to middle 70s. CAPE values over northern Iowa were around 3000 J-kg-1. Convection fired up during the late morning and early afternoon hours and left a weak outflow boundary over northern Iowa. During the early afternoon hours, convection fired over northwest Iowa. When this convection reached the old outflow boundary, one cell became severe at the intersection. In spite of weak inflow winds, generally 10 kts or less, the storm quickly grew and produced golf ball to baseball-size hail over Palo Alto County. WSR-88D VIL values reached 76 Kg-m-2 with this cell. Other storm fired in the areas, but did not become severe. The severe storm propagated south along its own outflow boundary. During this time the storm dropped copious amounts of hail. A report was received just north of Rush Lake, in Palo Alto County, of pea-size hail covering the ground to a depth of 12 inches in places. In spite of the small size of the hail, crop damage was severe with much of the crop shredded by hail. The new cell moved into northern Pocahontas County where it dropped softball-size hail. Damage was reported by these large hailstones to roofs and cars. Crop damage was also extensive. A short time later, another cell formed along the southern edge of the convective complex. It became severe and dropped only dime to quarter-size hail in spite of its VIL of 73 Kg-m-2. Following these events, the complex became too multicellular to sustain severe weather and only produced pea to marble-size hail and very heavy rains. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lidderdale | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Lidderdale | - | Event total of 3.00 inches. |
| July 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Lidderdale | - | Media reported a funnel cloud via their social media page. This is a delayed report. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Lidderdale | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.70 inches storm total thus far. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Lidderdale | - | Overnight rainfall was 2.30 inches. |
| August 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Lidderdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lidderdale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentner | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Glidden | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Carroll | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lanesboro | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Carmel | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Benan (historical) | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Maple River | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ralston | 9.8 miles | 8 |
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 Lidderdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928524 | 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 458338. 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.





