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Randalia, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52164. The Survey maps it on the Maynard quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Randalia within Fayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Randalia fell from 68 to 50 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
201068
202050-18 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Randalia between 2009 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4

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
18 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources19186 160TH SUMNER, IA 50674, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Randalia: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fayette Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vogts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zupke Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fayette-Templeton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yearous QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randalia in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 1994HailRandalia$50,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRandalia$10,000Some trees and power lines were blown down across the northern part of the county, including in Randalia.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRandalia$10,000A large metal building sustained severe roof damage near Randalia. Boards from the damaged building were driven into a nearby shed.
May 2021HailRandalia-Golf ball sized hail fell west of Fayette.
June 2017Flash FloodRandalia-Locally heavy rains pushed the Little Volga River out of its banks north of Maynard and over 130th Street.
July 2017Heavy RainRandalia-Near Fayette, 7.50 inches of rain fell.
June 2014Flash FloodRandalia-A water rescue was performed when a vehicle became stranded in high water along R Avenue southwest of Randalia. No injuries were reported.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRandalia-Swing set blown down in yard.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRandalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Donnan2.3 miles12
Fayette4.7 miles12
Maynard6.2 miles12
Hawkeye6.2 miles12
Albany6.7 miles12
Lima7.6 miles12
West Union8.0 miles12
Westgate8.7 miles12

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 RandaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926113The 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 460519. 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.