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Lorimor, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in New Hope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50149. The Survey maps it on the Lorimor North quadrangle. 386 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Lorimor within Union County

Population over time

2 figures

Lorimor grew from 360 to 386 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
2010360
2020386+26 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lorimor between 2007 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1

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
7 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2020Debris and open burning7.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Natural20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1230 UNBRELLA AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

54 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorimor in 54 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 hail, 17 heavy rain, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash 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
August 2007Flash FloodLorimor$75,000Flash flooding was reported throughout the east and southeast portions of Union County. The flooding was along the Thompson River and tributaries were well out of their banks. Several gravel roads were under water with trees on the roads, carried by flood waters.
July 2015Flash FloodLorimor$50,000Emergency Manager reported road closures across the eastern portions of the county.
June 2008Flash FloodLorimor$50,000County roads were washed out due to heavy rains.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLorimor$25,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLorimor$25,000no account filed
June 2008HailLorimor$15,000Hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 169 and 130th St.
June 2011Flash FloodLorimor$10,000Closure of 120th Street due to water over road.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLorimor$10,000Large limbs and branches were downed in the Lorimor and Creston areas.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLorimor$10,000no account filed
June 2014HailLorimor$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLorimor$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailLorimor$3,000no account filed
June 2008HailLorimor$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLorimor$2,000Tree limbs were blown down on the road.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLorimor$2,000no account filed
June 1997HailLorimor$2,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLorimor$2,000no account filed
April 2008HailLorimor$1,000no account filed
June 2008HailLorimor$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailLorimor-Report via mping.
April 2024HailLorimor-Report via mping.
April 2024HailLorimor-Hail reported near Rea Road and Creamery Road. Time estimated by radar.
April 2024HailLorimor-Delayed report by trained spotter. Hail up to 1.75 inches shredded leaves.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLorimor-Time estimated by radar.
April 2024HailLorimor-Photo from WHO viewer.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLorimor-A 62 mph wind gust recorded on handheld anemometer with blinding rain in sheets.
July 2023HailLorimor-Report via social media.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLorimor-Trees down on the road. Delayed report, time estimated by radar.
June 2021HailLorimor-Public report via images on social media. Time estimated via radar.
September 2019Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.31 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2018Heavy RainLorimor-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.27 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.27 inches over the last 24 hours.
October 2018Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.51 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2017Funnel CloudLorimor-Public reported a funnel cloud.
June 2017Funnel CloudLorimor-Public reported a funnel cloud.
September 2016Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.26 inches.
September 2016Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.0 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2016Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.90 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.02 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.00 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainLorimor-Public reported storm total rainfall of about 5.50 inches. End time based on radar.
December 2015Heavy RainLorimor-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.84 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLorimor-A spotter reported 60 MPH winds and pea size hail.
April 2014Heavy RainLorimor-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 3.79 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainLorimor-Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 3.55 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainLorimor-Rainfall of 3.69 inches in the past 24 hours.
April 2012Heavy RainLorimor-Rainfall of 2.45 inches in 24 hours.
July 2009Heavy RainLorimor-Rainfall total 4.15 inches so far, mostly since midnight.
July 2008Heavy RainLorimor-Rainfall of 3.50 inches.
April 2024HailLorimor-no account filed
July 2013HailLorimor-no account filed
March 2011Funnel CloudLorimor-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLorimor-no account filed
May 1997HailLorimor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Monette3.2 miles11
Thayer6.9 miles11
Talmage7.7 miles11
Afton Junction (historical)8.6 miles11
Afton10.4 miles11
Shepard (historical)10.9 miles8
Arispe15.2 miles8
East Creston15.7 miles9

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 LorimorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920903The 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 458617. 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.

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.