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.
Population over time
2 figuresOrient 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 408 | |
| 2020 | 368 | -40 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Orient quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
55 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $40,000 | Metal sheds were dented from high winds. Part of the roof was peeled off with many tree limbs down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $30,000 | Roof 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 2001 | Hail | Orient | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Orient | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Orient | $10,000 | Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail near Orient. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Orient | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Orient | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $3,000 | Torrential rains and very limited visibility. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Orient | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Orient | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $3,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Orient | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $2,000 | Public relayed a picture of a tree trunk snapped. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $2,000 | Strong winds to 60 mph estimated with tree limbs down in town. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Orient | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Orient | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Lightning | Orient | $1,000 | Public 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 2009 | Hail | Orient | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Orient | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Orient | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Orient | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail reported. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | - | Law enforcement relayed public report of a tree down in Orient. This is ad elayed report and time estimated from radar. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Orient | - | Time estimated by radar. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Trained spotter report of 2 inch hail in Orient, Iowa. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Storm chaser report of baseball size hail accompanied with significant damage to vehicles via twitter. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Hail report of 1.5 inches west of Orient, Iowa via Spotter Network. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Two inch hail reported. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Report via mping. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Orient | - | Nickel sized hail north of Orient. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orient | - | Large tree down on house. Time estimated via radar. |
| October 2019 | Hail | Orient | - | Public reported dime to quarter sized hail and small branches broken in the street. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Orient | - | Trained spotter reported a 1 hour heavy rainfall total of 1.22 inches since 12:45pm CDT. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Orient | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via social media. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Orient | - | 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 2012 | Heavy Rain | Orient | - | One and one half inches of rain before 1600 CST and an additional two and one half inches from 1600 to 1800 CST. |
| July 2009 | Heavy Rain | Orient | - | Six to eight inches of rain was reported in the area around Orient. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Orient | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Orient | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fisk | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Zion | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Greenfield | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hebron | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Gilead | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lemont (historical) | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Fontanelle | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Nanito | 10.2 miles | 10 |
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 Orient | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1916168 | 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 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.





