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Randall, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Ellsworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50231. The Survey maps it on the Story City quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Randall within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Randall fell from 173 to 154 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
2010173
2020154-19 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Randall between 2011 and 2020, burning about 56 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning2

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
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3972 VAIL AVE, IA
4 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2959 CHRISTYTOWN RD, IA
4 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources380TH AND OLSON AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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 Randall: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Henderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
I H KnudsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mortveidt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
StorglandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Teig PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randall in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Flash FloodRandall$25,000Public reported D65 west of Randall has been topped with water flowing over it in a couple of spots. Water also reported over several other county roads west of Randall.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindRandall$20,000Iowa DOT and Hamilton County dispatch reported downed power lines and power poles over Highway 69 south of Jewell.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRandall$10,000At least two trees and one power pole were blown down. Widespread large tree limb damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRandall$10,000Trees snapped with limbs across Highway 69.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRandall$10,000no account filed
May 2008HailRandall$5,000Nickel to quarter size hail, along with 50 MPH winds were reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
April 2006HailRandall$5,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailRandall$5,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindRandall$5,000no account filed
August 2000HailRandall$1,000no account filed
August 2015Heavy RainRandall-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 4.00 inches with significant runoff from field occurring. Beginning time radar estimated.
August 2010Heavy RainRandall-Rainfall of 3.5 inches and still raining with ditches full. Shallow water pooling around machine shed.
August 2010Heavy RainRandall-Overnight rainfall was 2.60 inches.
August 2010Heavy RainRandall-Rainfall since Tuesday night was 5.2 inches.
May 2008HailRandall-no account filed
September 2003HailRandall-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Randall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Jewell5.2 miles9
Ellsworth5.3 miles9
Rosedale6.5 miles15
Stanhope10.9 miles9
Kamrar12.6 miles9
Blairsburg16.8 miles9
Remicker (historical)17.3 miles9
Stratford17.4 miles9

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 RandallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925804The 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 460520. 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.