BlockPopejoy, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oakland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50227. The Survey maps it on the Popejoy quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPopejoy fell from 79 to 77 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 | 79 | |
| 2020 | 77 | -2 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Popejoy quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Popejoy: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hizerbroth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Marlowe Oakland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Nachazel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Popejoy in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Popejoy | $60,000 | This was a rather slow moving tornado which moved east initially through open cropland. The tornado then turned southeast, east and eventually northeast as it journeyed through the farmland. The tornado did hit a hog confinement with the roof collapsing producing EF1 damage. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Popejoy | $50,000 | Grain bin destroyed and laying in field along 50th Street. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Popejoy | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported flooding in areas around town. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Popejoy | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Popejoy | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Popejoy | $5,000 | Six inches of water over 70th Ave near the Heather Ave intersection. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Popejoy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Popejoy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Popejoy | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Popejoy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Popejoy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Popejoy | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Popejoy | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Popejoy | - | A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Popejoy | - | Two public reports of funnels located between Highway 20 and Interstate 35. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Popejoy | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Popejoy | - | 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.
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 Popejoy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926080 | 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 460361. 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.
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.