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Rodney, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51051. The Survey maps it on the Smithland quadrangle. 45 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Rodney within Monona County

Population over time

2 figures

Rodney fell from 60 to 45 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
201060
202045-15 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rodney between 2006 and 2011, burning about 181 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/undetermined5

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
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2876 JASPER AVE SMITHLAND, IA, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rodney: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Cargill Salt TerminalSaltProducer
Persinger Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rodney Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rodney Pit No. FiveSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monona County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rodney in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2024Flash FloodRodney$100,000At 04:56 am CDT on the 25th, law enforcement reported that a levee on the Little Sioux River failed 600 yards south of Highway 141 resulting in flash flooding in the surrounding areas. Since this event was tied to the river flooding at the end of this month, the damage estimates for the Flood event for Monona County has the damage estimates for this levee break included in it.
August 1993HailRodney$5,000An intense thunderstorm moved into west central Iowa during the afternoon hours. As the storm passed over Monona County, nickel-size hail fell southwest of Rodney.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindRodney$5,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRodney-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed a few large trees and power poles in town.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRodney-The second supercell in less than an hour passed through northern Monona county producing wind damage around Rodney. This time winds were estimated at over 70 mph as several trees were downed. The trees knocked down three power poles, and also caused damage to a few homes.
May 2007HailRodney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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
Ticonic2.7 miles8
Kennebec8.1 miles9
Mapleton8.9 miles9
Castana9.3 miles9
Whiting11.7 miles9
Turin12.9 miles9
Onawa14.5 miles9
Maple Landing (historical)15.9 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 RodneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1895486The 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 460760. 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.