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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.

Lidderdale within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Lidderdale 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.

YearPeople Change
2010180
2020166-14 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

12 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesLIDDERDALE FD
26 April 2014Smoking25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources410 E CENTRAL ST., LIDDERDALE, IA, IA
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesLIDDERDALE
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources190TH & TIMBER AVE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carroll Pit Dredge and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lanesboro Pits 1 and 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcclue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pound PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996LightningLidderdale$300,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodLidderdale$25,000Street flooding was reported in town.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLidderdale$10,000no account filed
May 2003HailLidderdale$10,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLidderdale$5,000Multiple four to six inch diameter branches down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLidderdale$5,000Trees 14 to 16 inch in diameter down.
August 2008HailLidderdale$5,000Penny to ping pong ball size hail was reported.
August 2004HailLidderdale$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailLidderdale$2,000no account filed
April 2004HailLidderdale$2,000no account filed
April 2004HailLidderdale$2,000no account filed
August 1995HailLidderdale$1,000A 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 2008HailLidderdale$1,000no account filed
July 2023Heavy RainLidderdale-Event total of 3.00 inches.
July 2017Funnel CloudLidderdale-Media reported a funnel cloud via their social media page. This is a delayed report.
September 2015Heavy RainLidderdale-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.70 inches storm total thus far.
August 2010Heavy RainLidderdale-Overnight rainfall was 2.30 inches.
August 2016Funnel CloudLidderdale-no account filed
August 2008HailLidderdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Kentner3.6 miles8
Glidden5.5 miles8
Carroll6.0 miles8
Lanesboro6.4 miles8
Mount Carmel6.9 miles8
Benan (historical)7.2 miles8
Maple River8.3 miles8
Ralston9.8 miles8

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 LidderdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928524The 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.