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Lockridge, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lockridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52635. The Survey maps it on the Lockridge East quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Lockridge within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Lockridge fell from 268 to 244 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
2010268
2020244-24 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lockridge between 2007 and 2009, burning about 71 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/undetermined10

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 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lockridge: 1 past producer. 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
Rome PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockridge in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2010LightningLockridge$100,000A church steeple in Lockridge was struck by lightning, setting the building on fire. Little was rescued from the building. The time is estimated.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Lockridge$100,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLockridge$10,000Outbuildings and a silo damaged.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLockridge-A public report was received of downed power lines.
June 2014HailLockridge-A trained spotter observed dime to penny size hail along with 50 mph winds.
May 2014HailLockridge-Quarter sized hail fell in Lockridge, IA at 440 pm CDT May 11.
May 2013HailLockridge-Report relayed by the sheriff's office.
May 2014HailLockridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Glasgow4.1 miles11
Salina5.7 miles7
Beckwith6.2 miles7
Merrimac6.6 miles7
Germanville7.6 miles7
Perlee10.3 miles7
East Pleasant Plain11.2 miles7
Fairfield11.4 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 LockridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1919116The 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 458552. 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.