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.
Population over time
2 figuresRichland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 584 | |
| 2020 | 542 | -42 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Richland quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Richland | $25,000 | A 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | A large tree branch blown down. The time was estimated by radar data. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | A trained spotter report a tree down across 320th Street. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | A trained spotter reported that trees were down. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | A few machine sheds were destroyed. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Richland | - | A USPS employee reported that nickel sized hail fell in Richland around 11PM CDT. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Richland | - | Hail ranged from pea to quarter sized and lasted for 4.5 minutes. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Richland | - | Power lines were also down. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Richland | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | Law enforcement estimated a wind speed of 70 mph or 61 knots in Richland. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in Richland, IA at 500 pm CDT June 16. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Richland | - | A trained spotter reported nickel size hail near Richland. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Richland | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Richland | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Richland | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Richland | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Ioka (historical) | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Talleyrand | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Nugent | 10.5 miles | 7 | |
| Lanscaster | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Keota | 12.5 miles | 7 | |
| Harper | 12.6 miles | 7 | |
| Martinsburg | 13.7 miles | 8 |
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 Richland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926011 | 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 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.




