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Moorland, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50566. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moorland quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Moorland within Webster County

Population over time

2 figures

Moorland fell from 169 to 168 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
2010169
2020168-1 (-1%)

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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moorland between 2009 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2020Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moorland: 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gilpin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lohr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spilka PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorland in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 2010Flash FloodMoorland$50,000Old Highway 20 underpass closed and impassable due to high water.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMoorland$20,000Public reported strong winds, blowing dust, and a tree had fallen on a car.
June 2018HailMoorland$10,000Trained spotter reported 2 inch diameter hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMoorland$5,000no account filed
August 2008HailMoorland$1,000no account filed
July 2024Heavy RainMoorland-A 24 hour rain total of 7.1 inches.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Moorland-Rope like tornado touched down several times west of Moorland in open fields.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Moorland-Brief touchdown in open fields.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Roelyn3.8 miles8
Tara4.0 miles9
West Fort Dodge (historical)5.2 miles11
Callender5.5 miles8
Barnum5.9 miles9
Wadleigh6.2 miles8
Roberts6.5 miles11
Shady Oak7.4 miles11

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 MoorlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926170The 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 459218. 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.