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Rhodes, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50234. The Survey maps it on the Rhodes quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Rhodes within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Rhodes fell from 305 to 271 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
2010305
2020271-34 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rhodes between 2006 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3010 HART AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rhodes: 2 past producers. 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
Powers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhodes in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2001HailRhodes$15,000no account filed
May 2001HailRhodes$15,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRhodes$10,000no account filed
October 2024Thunderstorm WindRhodes$5,000Emergency manager reported roof damage to an outbuilding, trees damaged, and fencing down. Time estimated by radar.
May 2013Flash FloodRhodes$5,000Water was reported over Durham Ave about three miles south of State Center.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRhodes$5,000Tree branches down.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Rhodes$2,000Intermittent path
April 2001Tornado (F0)Rhodes$1,000Intermittent track as tornado moved in from Jasper County and roped out.
March 2020Tornado (EF0)Rhodes-Several different videos of this tornado as it started over State Highway 330 and move mostly northward. It moved through a few different groves of tree producing EF0 damage. Otherwise, it remained in rural areas with no damage to any structures.
April 2019HailRhodes-Trained spotter reported quarter inch hail.
June 2019HailRhodes-Public reported nickel sized hail.
August 2004HailRhodes-no account filed
October 1998HailRhodes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Edenville0.2 miles8
Melbourne4.5 miles8
Malta5.0 miles8
State Center6.4 miles9
State Center Junction7.5 miles8
Van Cleve8.9 miles8
Van8.9 miles8
LaMoille10.7 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 RhodesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925887The 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 460599. 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.