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Rose Hill, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in White Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52586. The Survey maps it on the Rose Hill quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Rose Hill within Mahaska County

On record in Rose Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rose Hill fell from 168 to 157 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
2010168
2020157-11 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill between 2011 and 2015, burning about 9 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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 92 & 112TH AVE, IA
17 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources210TH & ZEPHER AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahaska County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rose Hill: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Knowler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Upton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahaska County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose Hill in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$50,000Considerable damage done on a farm near Rose Hill, roof and barn wall damage.
May 2002HailRose Hill$20,000no account filed
May 1996HailRose Hill$5,000no account filed
May 1998HailRose Hill$3,000no account filed
October 2002HailRose Hill$2,000no account filed
May 1996HailRose Hill$2,000no account filed
June 2005LightningRose Hill$1,500no account filed
November 2015Tornado (EF0)Rose Hill$1,000Storm Survey team found damage on the county line between Mahaska and Keokuk county. Tornado started in rural areas of eastern Mahaska county with only minor damage before exiting into Keokuk county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRose Hill-Personal weather station reported a measures wind gust of 61 mph.
May 2023HailRose Hill-Delayed report, time estimated via radar.
May 2023HailRose Hill-Delayed report, time estimated by radar. Report via social media.
July 2014Heavy RainRose Hill-Rainfall of 0.87 inches in 15 minutes.
August 2012HailRose Hill-no account filed
August 2006HailRose Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mahaska 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
Tioga2.7 miles7
Keomah Village4.6 miles7
Exeelsior (historical)5.2 miles7
Indianapolis5.4 miles7
Wright6.1 miles7
Spring Valley6.5 miles7
Neska6.6 miles7
Fremont7.7 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 Rose HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925699The 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 460788. 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.