BlockRandolph, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Riverside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51649. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 978 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRandolph grew from 168 to 189 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 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 189 | +21 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2005 and 2016, burning about 212 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 330 AVE AND 130 ST, IA |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | SHENANDOAH FD |
| 30 December 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Randolph: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randolph in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 10 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Hail | Randolph | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Randolph | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Flood | Randolph | $5,000 | Repeated thunderstorms on the 27th and 28th of August caused heavy rainfall and the West Nishnabotna River to go into flood. The river rose above flood stage on the afternoon of the 28th, the river created and fell below flood stage that evening. The flooding was generally minor and confined to low-lying areas along the river. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Randolph | $2,000 | Heavy rain caused the West Nishnabotna River to flood from near Randolph downstream to near Riverton. The river near Randolph reached nearly 22.5 feet during the morning of June 4th, flood stage is 19 feet. Meanwhile, the river crested at around 26.36 feet near Riverton around noon on June 4. Flood stage at Riverton is 21.5 feet. The flooding mainly impacted agricultural land along the River. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Randolph | $1,000 | Heavy rain over a 3 or 4 day period caused the West Nishnabotna River to briefly surpass its 19 foot flood stage near Randolph. The river crested at almost 19.5 feet around noon on the 14th. Some rural lowlands near the river were flooded. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Randolph | - | At approximately 7:32 PM CST on Thursday, April 17, a tornado formed southeast of Randolph, IA. The first sign of damage was snapped tree limbs near Lake Shawtee. As the tornado progressed eastward, continued tree damage was observed along with the damage of small outdoor farm buildings and house roofs. A concentrated area of the most extensive damage was observed south of Imogene, IA. In this area, damage included snapped wooden power poles, minor damage to homes, and the continued damage of outdoor buildings and trees. The width of damage also reached its peak, approximately 1971.2 yards in this area. The maximum wind speed during this segment of the track was estimated at 110 mph, classifying it as an EF1, 0 fatalities and 0 injuries. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | Telephone lines were downed by the winds. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Randolph | - | Heavy rainfall during mid December caused the western Nishnabotna River over flood state at Randolph. The river crested at 21.04 feet during the early morning on the 15th. The flooding was confined to low-land agricultural areas. |
| September 2014 | Flood | Randolph | - | A slow moving thunderstorm complex lead to heavy rainfall on the 9th causing the West Nishnabotna River to rise above flood stage around the Randolph area. The river rose above flood stage during the early morning on the 10th, crested during the early afternoon and fell below flood stage during the evening. The flooding was minor and confined to low-lying areas. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Randolph | - | Heavy rainfall from the evening and overnight hours of June 7th and June 8th produced flooding along the West Nishnabotna River in Fremont county for the second time within a week. The river at Randolph crested at 20.5 feet at 245 pm CDT on 6/8, flood stage 19 feet. The river was above flood stage from around 11 am on 6/8 until 930 pm on 6/9.||The flooding affected mainly agricultural lowlands. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Randolph | - | Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over much of southwest Iowa during the late afternoon and overnight hours of June 4th and 5th. The heavy rain caused the West Nishnabotna River to flood. The stage at Randolph crested at 23.2 feet at 1245 pm CDT on June 5, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Randolph was above flood stage from around 145 am on the 5th through 715 am on the 6th. The flooding closed a few county roads but otherwise just affected agricultural lowlands. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Randolph | - | A week of heavy rain producing thunderstorms through June 11th fell across the Nishnabotna River basin in southwest Iowa. The heavy rain caused flooding along the West Nishnabotna from around Hancock, in Pottawattamie county, through Randolph in Fremont county to its merger with the East Nishnabotna River near Hamburg. The river at Randolph reached a 23.8 foot crest around 815pm CDT on June 12th, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Randolph fell below flood stage during the evening hours of June 13th. The flooding closed several county roads and also flooded agricultural lowlands in the area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed some large tree limbs in Randolph. The winds were from the decaying thunderstorm bow-echo that slammed into the Omaha/Council Bluffs area a little earlier. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Randolph | - | Heavy rainfall over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th, caused the West Nishnabotna River to flood across Fremont county. The West Nishnabotna River at Randolph crested a little over 24 feet for around 10 hours from a little after midnight until late morning on the 7th. Flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Randolph first crossed flood stage around 330 am cdt on the 6th and didn't drop below flood stage until the evening on the 8th.|The flooding affected farmland and many county roads in the area. |
| October 2007 | Flood | Randolph | - | Heavy rain over the weekend of October 12th through the 14th produced flooding along the West Nishnabotna River from upstream of Randolph downstream through the merger with the East Nishnabotna River. Rainfall of 4 to 5 inches was common just in the 24 hour period ending the morning of the 15th, with much of it falling during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 14th. ||The river at Randolph crested at 20.7 feet at 515 am CDT on the 15th, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Randolph was above flood stage from around 130 am through 2 pm CDT on the 15th.||The flooding closed several county roads and a Wildlife Area near Riverton. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Randolph | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Randolph | - | 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.
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 Randolph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q591476 | 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 460522. 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.