Pulaski, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52584. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPulaski grew from 260 to 264 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 | 260 | |
| 2020 | 264 | +4 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pulaski between 2006 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulaski in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 6 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Pulaski | $500,000 | Four feet of water was reported with a car stranded on the road. Water was backing up into basements. Gravel roads countywide reportedly had washouts with many shoulder washouts. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $100,000 | Numerous large trees and power lines down in town. Many roofs damaged by falling trees. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Pulaski | $75,000 | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Pulaski | $50,000 | The North Wyaconda Creek was out of its banks and one quarter of a mile wide in spots. Water was over gravel roads. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Pulaski | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $25,000 | Large trees were down in Pulaski from thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $25,000 | A storage facility was damaged by thunderstorms winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $10,000 | Strong winds with tree damage. Tin was blown off of a house. Heavy rain as well. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Pulaski | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Pulaski | $5,000 | Strong winds along with heavy rain also reported. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Pulaski | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $3,000 | Fire department reported winds gusts of up to 60 MPH. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Pulaski | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pulaski | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | A 24 hour rain total of 3.40 inches. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | Public report of 5.21 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.41 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | Rainfall today was 3.5 inches. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | One and one half inches of rain fell in the past 30 to 45 minutes. Minor street flooding was reported in town. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Pulaski | - | Six inches of rain was reported with the rain gauge overflowing at that point. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Pulaski | - | Brief touchdown of a pencil thin tornado in open fields north of Pulaski. |
| October 2001 | Hail | Pulaski | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover (historical) | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Waneta | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Wanetta Corner | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Troy | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Shunem | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Stiles | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Steuben | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bloomfield | 8.4 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 Pulaski | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1000172 | 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 460469. 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.
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.




