BlockBefore

Redding, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50860. The Survey maps it on the Blockton quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Redding within Ringgold County

On record in Redding

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Redding fell from 82 to 63 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
201082
202063-19 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Redding between 1992 and 2013, burning about 13 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

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
6 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 January 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Ringgold County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Redding: 1 past producer. None of them 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redding in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Redding$200,000This tornado crossed into Ringgold County, Iowa from Worth County in Missouri shortly after developing. The tornado widened to around 300 yards as it travelled northeast remaining to the southeast of both Redding and Delphos. The tornado interacted with several different farmsteads producing mainly EF1 damage to houses and outbuildings. There was ample tree damage along the path as well. The tornado eventually lifted to the east of Delphos.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRedding$50,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRedding$30,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRedding$20,000no account filed
June 2014HailRedding$15,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRedding$15,000no account filed
June 2014HailRedding$10,000Baseball size hail was measured along 325th street.
June 2010Flash FloodRedding$10,000Water covering Highway P27 with ditches full of water.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRedding$10,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRedding$10,000no account filed
June 2010HailRedding$5,000Also the top of a green house was blown off.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindRedding$5,000no account filed
April 2001HailRedding$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailRedding$2,000no account filed
June 1996HailRedding$1,000no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudRedding-Trained spotter reported a persistent funnel lasting over 5 minutes.
August 2016Heavy RainRedding-Emergency manager received report of heavy rainfall of 7 inches storm total. Exact end time of report unknown.
September 2014Heavy RainRedding-Rainfall this afternoon and evening was 3.16 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainRedding-A spotter had a 5 inch rain gage that overflowed. Estimate of 6 inches of rain based on a nearby neighbor receiving 6 inches in their rain gage.
March 2005HailRedding-no account filed
April 2001HailRedding-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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
Delphos4.8 miles13
Maloy5.0 miles13
Benton7.0 miles13
Watterson8.2 miles12
Marshall (historical)8.9 miles13
Ringgold (historical)10.5 miles12
Mount Ayr11.1 miles12
Caledonia (historical)12.0 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 ReddingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926068The 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 460563. 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.