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Ocheyedan, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ocheyedan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51354. It stands on Ocheyedan Mound. The Survey maps it on the Ocheyedan quadrangle. 439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

Ocheyedan within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Ocheyedan fell from 490 to 439 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
2010490
2020439-51 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ocheyedan between 2010 and 2020, burning about 35 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/undetermined1
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
8 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesVINE AND 180TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Ocheyedan: 10 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. 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
Kout PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loaf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maudlin Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maudlin Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Molendorp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
OcheyedanSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rehms-Stewart, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocheyedan in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan$100,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed an airplane hangar, a small airplane in the hangar, and a machine shed.
June 2001HailOcheyedan$100,000no account filed
June 2001HailOcheyedan$100,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan$50,000Numerous thunderstorms developed in the strong, moist southerly flow ahead of an approaching cold front. Many of them produced pea to marble-size hail and gusty winds of 40 to 50 MPH. One of the cells became severe and produced winds strong enough to take down power lines and one utility pole east of Akron. During the late evening hours, the thunderstorms weakened and collapsed. As the tops collapsed, high winds affected Osceola County. Trees were toppled and power lines downed. Several out buildings were toppled as well. A machine shed, on a farmstead west of May City, was picked up and hurled 100 feet from its foundation. The building was destroyed. Some minor damage was also done to the farmhouse as well. Trees and power lines were also downed on a farmstead east of Ocheyedan. A machine shed was also destroyed by high winds there.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Ocheyedan$10,000The tornado spun up around one-half mile west of Ocheyedan south of 160th Street. The tornado traveled south southeast along Tanager Avenue where it damaged a few trees along the road. After a little over a mile, the path shifted to the southeast. Just before the tornado dissipated near the intersection of 180th Street and Tyler Avenue, a small portion of a chicken barn roof was damaged. The average path width was 50 yards, defined by drone video. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
June 1994HailOcheyedan$5,000no account filed
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Ocheyedan-The tornado began just east of Starling Avenue north of 140th Street, traveling south southeast across open fields before lifting just west of the Devil's Ridge Wildlife Management Area south of 140th Street. The path was defined on Sentinel satellite imagery through crops. The average path width was 40 yards.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Ocheyedan-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 foot diameter trees blown down.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Ocheyedan-A brief tornado caused no reported damage or injuries.
June 2014HailOcheyedan-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOcheyedan-no account filed
September 2005HailOcheyedan-no account filed
May 2004HailOcheyedan-no account filed
May 2004HailOcheyedan-no account filed
June 2004HailOcheyedan-no account filed
July 2004HailOcheyedan-no account filed
June 2004HailOcheyedan-no account filed
August 2002HailOcheyedan-no account filed
June 2001HailOcheyedan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Harris5.7 miles7
Allendorf5.8 miles7
May City7.3 miles7
Cloverdale9.3 miles7
Melvin9.7 miles7
Sibley11.6 miles7
Ashton15.4 miles7

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 OcheyedanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927689The 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 459794. 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.