New Haven, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50461. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Haven fell from 91 to 77 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 | 91 | |
| 2020 | 77 | -14 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Charles City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Haven between 2006 and 2009, burning about 3 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of New Haven: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dickson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hazel Dickson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Goodale Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Malecek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Haven in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | New Haven | $525,000 | This EF1 tornado developed south of New Haven and tracked northeast before moving into Howard County, passing south of Riceville. Along the path, numerous farm buildings, grain bins, and trees were damaged or destroyed. |
| October 2006 | Hail | New Haven | $60,000 | Estimated golf ball size hail broke windows. Reported by public to television station. |
| July 2015 | Lightning | New Haven | $20,000 | A machine shed was set on fire from a lightning strike southeast of New Haven. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | $10,000 | The catholic church in New Haven sustained wind damage. |
| September 1995 | Hail | New Haven | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | $5,000 | Power lines and tree limbs were blown down near New Haven. |
| August 1994 | Hail | New Haven | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | New Haven | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | New Haven | $800 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Flood | New Haven | - | Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Little Cedar River at Orchard into flood stage on June 23th. The river stage crested during the evening on the same day in at 1081.5 ft. |
| May 2023 | Flood | New Haven | - | Significant runoff from heavy rainfall upstream resulted in a rapid rise of water and minor flooding along the Little Cedar River near Orchard on May 15th. Minor flooding was initially realized late on May 14th, with the river cresting 0.51 feet above flood stage of 1081.5 feet above sea level during the early morning of May 15th. It then fell below flood stage later that morning. |
| March 2023 | Hail | New Haven | - | Up to quarter sized hail fell near New Haven. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | New Haven | - | East of Osage, 8.07 inches of rain fell. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | A 68 mph wind gust occurred southeast of New Haven. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | New Haven | - | Heavy rain caused the Little Cedar River to go out of its banks and over State Highway 9 east of Osage. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | New Haven | - | Southeast of New Haven, 7 inches of rain fell. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | New Haven | - | Heavy rain caused the Little Cedar River to rise rapidly and produce flooding that closed roads east of Orchard. |
| May 2017 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | New Haven | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownville | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Orchard | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Little Cedar | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Riceville (historical) | 8.1 miles | 7 | |
| Osage | 9.0 miles | 7 | |
| McIntire | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| Mitchell | 12.2 miles | 7 | |
| Meyer | 12.3 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 New Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5857368 | 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 459476. 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.




