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Plymouth, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50464. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nora Springs quadrangle. 375 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Plymouth within Cerro Gordo County

Population over time

2 figures

Plymouth fell from 382 to 375 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
2010382
2020375-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Plymouth between 2006 and 2019, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined14
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2017Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cerro Gordo County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Plymouth: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BernhardtStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shell Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cerro Gordo County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plymouth in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$100,000Emergency Manager reported numerous trees uprooted throughout town along with tree damage throughout the county. Grain bins blown down as well.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$15,000Public report of trees down across town. Report and photos via social media and time radar estimated.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$10,000Trees were blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$5,000A two and one half foot diameter tree fell on a home on Broad Street. Numerous branches were down around town. A tree blocked a road and bridge on the main street in town.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$3,000Several 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
May 2012HailPlymouth$3,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPlymouth-Amateur radio operator reported trees down in Plymouth. Report came through social media. Time estimated from radar.
June 2013Flash FloodPlymouth-Water was reported in low lying fields and creeks were out of their banks. Water over 330th St. north of Rock Falls.

Every storm recorded in Cerro Gordo 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
Plymouth Junction1.3 miles9
Wheelerwood3.1 miles8
Rock Falls3.3 miles8
Freeman4.7 miles9
Mason City7.6 miles9
Portland8.1 miles8
Mason City Junction9.5 miles8
Registry Park9.9 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 PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927378The 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 460339. 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.