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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.

Pulaski within Davis County

Population over time

2 figures

Pulaski 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.

YearPeople Change
2010260
2020264+4 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

5 since 2006

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 April 2020Debris and open burning120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2017Debris and open burning85 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 February 2017Debris and open burning65 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Flash FloodPulaski$500,000Four 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 2013Thunderstorm WindPulaski$100,000Numerous large trees and power lines down in town. Many roofs damaged by falling trees.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPulaski$100,000no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F1)Pulaski$75,000no account filed
September 2008Flash FloodPulaski$50,000The North Wyaconda Creek was out of its banks and one quarter of a mile wide in spots. Water was over gravel roads.
September 2008FloodPulaski$50,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPulaski$25,000Large trees were down in Pulaski from thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPulaski$25,000A storage facility was damaged by thunderstorms winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPulaski$15,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000Strong winds with tree damage. Tin was blown off of a house. Heavy rain as well.
September 2001HailPulaski$10,000no account filed
June 2010HailPulaski$5,000Strong winds along with heavy rain also reported.
August 2006HailPulaski$5,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPulaski$5,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPulaski$3,000Fire department reported winds gusts of up to 60 MPH.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPulaski$3,000no account filed
March 2006HailPulaski$2,000no account filed
June 2006HailPulaski$2,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPulaski$1,000no account filed
September 2022Heavy RainPulaski-A 24 hour rain total of 3.40 inches.
June 2021Heavy RainPulaski-Public report of 5.21 inches of rain in 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainPulaski-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainPulaski-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainPulaski-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.41 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2014Heavy RainPulaski-Rainfall today was 3.5 inches.
July 2013Heavy RainPulaski-One and one half inches of rain fell in the past 30 to 45 minutes. Minor street flooding was reported in town.
September 2008Heavy RainPulaski-Six inches of rain was reported with the rain gauge overflowing at that point.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Pulaski-Brief touchdown of a pencil thin tornado in open fields north of Pulaski.
October 2001HailPulaski-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Dover (historical)4.2 miles7
Waneta4.6 miles7
Wanetta Corner5.0 miles7
Troy5.2 miles7
Shunem5.6 miles10
Stiles5.9 miles7
Steuben6.4 miles8
Bloomfield8.4 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 PulaskiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000172The 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.