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.
Population over time
2 figuresLockridge 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 268 | |
| 2020 | 244 | -24 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lockridge East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
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 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rome Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Lockridge | $100,000 | A church steeple in Lockridge was struck by lightning, setting the building on fire. Little was rescued from the building. The time is estimated. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Lockridge | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockridge | $10,000 | Outbuildings and a silo damaged. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockridge | - | A public report was received of downed power lines. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Lockridge | - | A trained spotter observed dime to penny size hail along with 50 mph winds. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lockridge | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Lockridge, IA at 440 pm CDT May 11. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lockridge | - | Report relayed by the sheriff's office. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lockridge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Salina | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Beckwith | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Merrimac | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Germanville | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Perlee | 10.3 miles | 7 | |
| East Pleasant Plain | 11.2 miles | 7 | |
| Fairfield | 11.4 miles | 7 |
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 Lockridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1919116 | 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 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.





