BlockRadcliffe, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50230. The Survey maps it on the Radcliffe quadrangle. 555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRadcliffe grew from 545 to 555 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 | 545 | |
| 2020 | 555 | +10 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Radcliffe quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radcliffe in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $500,000 | Extensive crop damage. Several houses with broken windows from the hail on the west sides of them. Crop damage swath a mile to mile and one half wide. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Radcliffe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $30,000 | Law Enforcement reported trees and power lines down in town. Damage to a church was also reported. Time estimated from radar. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Radcliffe | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Radcliffe | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $10,000 | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Radcliffe | $5,000 | Weak tornado developed on the north side of Radcliffe doing minor damage and tipping an old truck on its side. The tornado continued on an intermittent track across rural areas northeast of Radcliffe for several miles with little additional damage. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Radcliffe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Radcliffe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radcliffe | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Radcliffe | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Radcliffe | - | Public reported a funnel cloud visible from Ames. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Radcliffe | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 8.50 inches of rain over the last 24 hours in Radcliffe. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherman | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Garden City | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hubbard | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Buckeye | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Racine | 12.1 miles | 9 | |
| Rough Woods Hill | 12.4 miles | 9 | |
| Wilke | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Alden Station (historical) | 13.3 miles | 9 |
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 Radcliffe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926573 | 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 460495. 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.