Lytton, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50561. The Survey maps it on the Lytton quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,227 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLytton fell from 315 to 282 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 | 315 | |
| 2020 | 282 | -33 (-10%) |
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 Lytton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lytton in 2012, burning about 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lytton: 2 past producers. 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.
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lytton in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Lytton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Lytton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Lytton | $25,000 | Sac County law enforcement reports flooding over Highway 20 near Lytton. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lytton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Lytton | $10,000 | Water was over Highway 20 at Lytton. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lytton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Lytton | - | Submitted photo of quarter sized hail in Lytton. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lytton | - | Mostly penny to nickel sized hail with some quarter sized hail mixed in. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Lytton | - | Trained spotter reported mostly pea to nickel sized hail with a few quarter sized stones mixed in. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Lytton | - | Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Lytton | - | Storm chaser captured the tornado with a UAV. The footage was used to determine the path of the tornado which remained in rural agricultural fields, hence the EFU rating. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lytton | - | Emergency manager reported wind gusts of up to 60 mph east of Sac City. |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Lytton | - | A brief funnel cloud came down and then retreated upwards. The funnel cloud was observed by the Calhoun County Sheriff. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Lytton | - | Brief tornado occurred between northeast of Sac City. |
| September 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Lytton | - | Small rope tornado touched down in Sac County and moved into Calhoun County. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Lytton | - | 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.
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 Lytton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928544 | 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 458704. 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.





