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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.

Saylorville within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Saylorville 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,301
20203,584+283 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

11 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4

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 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesU.S 20 @ N-57, IA
3 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Can-Tex Industries West PitClayProducer
Iowa Clay Pipe Co. PitClayPast Producer
Berwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Des Moines North Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnston Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morning Star PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSaylorville$2,000,000no account filed
July 2009HailSaylorville$10,000Hail reported at the intersecton of Oralabor and State Street.
June 2008LightningSaylorville$10,000A house was damaged due to a lightning strike.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSaylorville$5,000At Saydel High School.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSaylorville$5,000Spotter reported pea size hail and winds of up to 65 MPH.
May 2008HailSaylorville$5,000no account filed
April 2003HailSaylorville$5,000no account filed
April 1994HailSaylorville$5,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSaylorville$3,000Several three inch diameter tree limbs down at the DMACC campus in Ankeny.
May 2008HailSaylorville$3,000Quarter size hail was reported at the Saylorville Information Center.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSaylorville$3,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodSaylorville$1,000Southbound lanes of Highway 415 closed due to water running over the road.
April 2007HailSaylorville$1,000no account filed
May 2024Heavy RainSaylorville-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 2022Funnel CloudSaylorville-Funnel cloud spotted in southwest Ankeny. Report from social media.
July 2021Heavy RainSaylorville-Public report of 2.14 inches of rain since midnight, made via social media.
October 2019Heavy RainSaylorville-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.05 inches over the past 24 hours.
May 2019Heavy RainSaylorville-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.12 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2018Heavy RainSaylorville-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 2017Thunderstorm WindSaylorville-A 65 mph gust was measured on a home weather station, and 3 inch tree branches were reported down.
June 2015Heavy RainSaylorville-CoCoRaHS reported heavy rainfall of 3.14 inches over the last 24 hours. CoCoRaHS station Saylorville IA-PK-2.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Saylorville-Brief touchdown in open area north of Interstate 35/80.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Carney1.7 miles16
Saylor Station1.8 miles16
Saylor2.0 miles16
Marquisville2.2 miles16
Oralabor2.7 miles16
Swanwood2.8 miles16
Johnston3.6 miles17
Ankeny3.7 miles16

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 SaylorvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1923106The 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.