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Orient, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Orient Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50858. The Survey maps it on the Orient quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

Orient within Adair County

Population over time

2 figures

Orient fell from 408 to 368 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
2010408
2020368-40 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

55 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orient in 55 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 38 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindOrient$40,000Metal sheds were dented from high winds. Part of the roof was peeled off with many tree limbs down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOrient$30,000Roof torn off of a hog house and a large tree was down on a trailer at the intersection of 310th St and Henry A Wallace Road.
October 2001HailOrient$30,000no account filed
May 2001HailOrient$25,000no account filed
October 2001HailOrient$25,000no account filed
May 2001HailOrient$20,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOrient$15,000no account filed
August 2015HailOrient$10,000Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail near Orient.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindOrient$10,000Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2001HailOrient$10,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOrient$10,000no account filed
March 2011HailOrient$5,000no account filed
April 2009HailOrient$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailOrient$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailOrient$5,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOrient$3,000Torrential rains and very limited visibility.
March 2006HailOrient$3,000no account filed
May 2001HailOrient$3,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOrient$3,000no account filed
October 2001HailOrient$3,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOrient$2,000Public relayed a picture of a tree trunk snapped.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOrient$2,000Strong winds to 60 mph estimated with tree limbs down in town.
July 2003HailOrient$2,000no account filed
April 2001HailOrient$2,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOrient$2,000no account filed
June 2023LightningOrient$1,000Public relayed photo of a tree blown apart by a lightning strike. No other apparent damage to the residence at the time. Time matched to CG lightning data.
April 2009HailOrient$1,000no account filed
April 2009HailOrient$1,000no account filed
September 2001HailOrient$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailOrient-Nickel to quarter sized hail reported.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOrient-Law enforcement relayed public report of a tree down in Orient. This is ad elayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2023HailOrient-Time estimated by radar.
March 2022HailOrient-Trained spotter report of 2 inch hail in Orient, Iowa.
March 2022HailOrient-Storm chaser report of baseball size hail accompanied with significant damage to vehicles via twitter.
March 2022HailOrient-Hail report of 1.5 inches west of Orient, Iowa via Spotter Network.
March 2022HailOrient-Two inch hail reported.
March 2022HailOrient-Report via mping.
June 2022HailOrient-Nickel sized hail north of Orient.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOrient-Large tree down on house. Time estimated via radar.
October 2019HailOrient-Public reported dime to quarter sized hail and small branches broken in the street.
May 2017Heavy RainOrient-Trained spotter reported a 1 hour heavy rainfall total of 1.22 inches since 12:45pm CDT.
May 2017HailOrient-Public reported quarter sized hail via social media.
August 2015Heavy RainOrient-Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.00 inches total last night and today. Of the 4 inches, 3 inches came overnight and 1 inch during the day.
April 2012Heavy RainOrient-One and one half inches of rain before 1600 CST and an additional two and one half inches from 1600 to 1800 CST.
July 2009Heavy RainOrient-Six to eight inches of rain was reported in the area around Orient.
April 2024HailOrient-no account filed
April 2024HailOrient-no account filed
April 2023HailOrient-no account filed
April 2023HailOrient-no account filed
April 2023HailOrient-no account filed
April 2013HailOrient-no account filed
June 2010HailOrient-no account filed
September 2002HailOrient-no account filed
September 2002HailOrient-no account filed
October 2001HailOrient-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Fisk6.0 miles9
Zion6.1 miles9
Greenfield7.5 miles10
Hebron7.7 miles10
Gilead9.3 miles9
Lemont (historical)9.4 miles10
Fontanelle9.8 miles9
Nanito10.2 miles10

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 OrientAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1916168The 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 459893. 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.