Rippey, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50235. The Survey maps it on the Rippey quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRippey fell from 292 to 220 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 | 292 | |
| 2020 | 220 | -72 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1950 USGS Perry quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Perry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Rippey quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Rippey between 2006 and 2012, burning about 14 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 burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 February 2006 | Smoking | 13 acres | Iowa Wetland Management District | MURPHY |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rippey: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodale Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rippey in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Rippey | $50,000 | Trained spotter in Rippey reports fast flowing water about 6 inches deep in the streets. The city park was largely under water as well. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Rippey | $50,000 | Water 3 to 4 inches deep in yards, water over curbs, city park and city ball field beginning to flood. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rippey | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Rippey | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Flood | Rippey | $20,000 | Many primary and secondary roads were flooded. Some roads were washed out. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Rippey | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Rippey | $3,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported for several minutes. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Rippey | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Rippey | - | Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.709 inches after 5 pm last night. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Rippey | - | Quarter size hail and smaller lasted 3 minutes. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Rippey | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Rippey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Junction | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cooper | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Winkelmans | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Gravel Pit | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Jefferson | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Green Brier | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Dana | 12.2 miles | 11 | |
| Paton | 16.2 miles | 9 |
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 Rippey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925868 | 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 460642. 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.







