Saylorville, Iowa
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Saylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50313. The Survey maps it on the Des Moines NW quadrangle. 3,584 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaylorville grew from 3,301 to 3,584 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 | 3,301 | |
| 2020 | 3,584 | +283 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1905 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Des Moines NW quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saylorville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 41 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 | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | U.S 20 @ N-57, IA |
| 3 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Saylorville: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can-Tex Industries West Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Iowa Clay Pipe Co. Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Berwick Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Des Moines North Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Johnston Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Morning Star Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saylorville in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Saylorville | $10,000 | Hail reported at the intersecton of Oralabor and State Street. |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Saylorville | $10,000 | A house was damaged due to a lightning strike. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | $5,000 | At Saydel High School. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | $5,000 | Spotter reported pea size hail and winds of up to 65 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Saylorville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Saylorville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Saylorville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | $3,000 | Several three inch diameter tree limbs down at the DMACC campus in Ankeny. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Saylorville | $3,000 | Quarter size hail was reported at the Saylorville Information Center. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Saylorville | $1,000 | Southbound lanes of Highway 415 closed due to water running over the road. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Saylorville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | Trained spotter reported storm-total rain, so far, of 4.50 inches. Also reported significant runoff in the house drainage easements. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| July 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Saylorville | - | Funnel cloud spotted in southwest Ankeny. Report from social media. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | Public report of 2.14 inches of rain since midnight, made via social media. |
| October 2019 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.05 inches over the past 24 hours. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.12 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 7.54 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saylorville | - | A 65 mph gust was measured on a home weather station, and 3 inch tree branches were reported down. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Saylorville | - | CoCoRaHS reported heavy rainfall of 3.14 inches over the last 24 hours. CoCoRaHS station Saylorville IA-PK-2. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Saylorville | - | Brief touchdown in open area north of Interstate 35/80. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carney | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Saylor Station | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Saylor | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Marquisville | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Oralabor | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Swanwood | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Johnston | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Ankeny | 3.7 miles | 16 |
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 Saylorville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1923106 | 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 461450. 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.








