Olds, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52647. The Survey maps it on the Crawfordsville quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Olds within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Olds fell from 229 to 192 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	229
2020	192	-37 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Crawfordsville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olds in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Olds	$50,000	no account filed
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Olds	-	A NWS storm survey team reported a large tree limb down.
April 2015	Hail	Olds	-	A trained spotter reported that hail ranging in size from pea to half dollar was falling at the intersection of Highway 78 and Avenue of the Saints (Highway 218).
May 2014	Hail	Olds	-	Quarter sized hail fell about 1 mile east of Olds, IA at 510 pm CDT May 12.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Olds	-	A 68 mph wind gust was measured with a hand held anemometer just north of Olds, IA at 8:05 pm June 8.
June 2008	Hail	Olds	-	Golf ball-sized hail fell in Olds, IA at 6:22 pm June 12.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Olds	-	Water covered several streets with up to 4 inches of water.
July 2004	Heavy Rain	Olds	-	1.00 inch in 30 minutes
June 1999	Funnel Cloud	Olds	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Swedesburg	2.0 miles	7
Winfield	5.5 miles	7
Wayland	6.2 miles	7
Trenton	7.0 miles	7
Traxler (historical)	7.6 miles	7
Coppock	9.0 miles	7
Mount Union	9.7 miles	7
Mount Pleasant	11.8 miles	11

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 Olds	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926460	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 459848. 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.

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.