BlockRodman, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fern Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50597. The Survey maps it on the Cylinder quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRodman fell from 45 to 31 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 31 | -14 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Cylinder quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rodman: 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorweiller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| West Bend Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rodman in 7 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Rodman | $25,000 | County Sheriff's Office reported fully water-covered roads in and around the town of Rodman. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rodman | - | Wind gust observation from a personal weather station near Rodman. |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Rodman | - | CoCoRaHS reported 3.71 inches of rain. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Rodman | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.73 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Rodman | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.85 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Rodman | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.28 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Rodman | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.28 inches over the last 24 hours. |
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.
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 Rodman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q516632 | 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 460759. 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.
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.