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Richland, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52585. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Richland within Keokuk County

Population over time

2 figures

Richland fell from 584 to 542 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
2010584
2020542-42 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2006 and 2020, burning about 32 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
28 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 November 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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
May 2002Tornado (F0)Richland$25,000A brief spinup tornado, along the leading edge of a cluster of thunderstorms, produced heavy damage to a farmstead south of Richland. Power lines and large trees were knocked down, and a machine shed and grain bin were destroyed. No injuries were reported.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRichland-A large tree branch blown down. The time was estimated by radar data.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRichland-A 4 inch diameter tree branch blown down, as the spotter estimated 75 mph winds on the back side of the storm, associated with the rear flank downdraft.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRichland-A trained spotter report a tree down across 320th Street. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRichland-A trained spotter reported that trees were down. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRichland-A few machine sheds were destroyed.
April 2015HailRichland-A USPS employee reported that nickel sized hail fell in Richland around 11PM CDT.
April 2015HailRichland-Hail ranged from pea to quarter sized and lasted for 4.5 minutes.
April 2015HailRichland-Power lines were also down.
July 2014FloodRichland-Heavy rainfall across the Upper Midwest during the last two weeks of June brought the Mississippi River at Keokuk above the major flood stage of 19 feet around 200 AM on July 3 and fell below major flood stage around 600 AM on July 14. The river crested at 23.4 feet around 1100 PM on July 7.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindRichland-Law enforcement estimated a wind speed of 70 mph or 61 knots in Richland.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRichland-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in Richland, IA at 500 pm CDT June 16.
April 2012HailRichland-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail near Richland.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRichland-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a large tree down in Richland, IA at 426 pm CDT May 22. The tree blocked a road.
June 2007Flash FloodRichland-A torrential downpour created flash flooding of several roads in Richland, IA. The water depth over the roads was reported to have been several inches deep.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRichland-Trees and power lines down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRichland-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph ripped the roof off the old Richland School building. Numerous trees and power poles were downed throughout the community.
May 2020HailRichland-no account filed
April 1999Funnel CloudRichland-no account filed
April 1999Funnel CloudRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Keokuk 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
Ollie5.3 miles7
Ioka (historical)7.2 miles7
Talleyrand7.7 miles7
Nugent10.5 miles7
Lanscaster11.0 miles7
Keota12.5 miles7
Harper12.6 miles7
Martinsburg13.7 miles8

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 RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926011The 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 460617. 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.

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.