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Scarville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50473. The Survey maps it on the Lake Mills quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Scarville within Winnebago County

On record in Scarville

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

Scarville grew from 72 to 74 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
201072
202074+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Scarville between 2006 and 2010, burning about 4 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/undetermined2

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 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources20030 490TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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 Scarville: 4 unknowns, 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scarville in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1998Flash FloodScarville$150,000no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F2)Scarville$100,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindScarville$50,000As the evening progressed, the low mentioned above progressed northeast. The dry slot raced northeast into the central United States resulting in another round of thunderstorm development. Intense thunderstorms developed over eastern portions of Kansas and Nebraska, then moved north-northeast into southwest and central Iowa. The storms produced high winds and hail up to an inch in diameter. Winds estimated in excess of 65 mph blew through Council Bluffs. Power lines were downed in the city, causing minor fires. Winds caused damage as they moved into southwest Iowa. Winds gusted to 60 to 75 mph with the stronger storms. High winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer in Interstate 80 south of Adair. Outbuildings were blown down over Union, Cass, Taylor, and Page Counties. A grain bin was blown over east of Dallas Center. Damage was reported in Madison County in the town of Winterset. At least one garage roof was removed by the winds and a utility pole was blown over. During the late evening, the dry punch overtook the storms and they weakened rapidly. High winds from the decaying storms caused damage in north-central Iowa east of Scarville. Two grain bins, a barn, and several trees were downed on a farmstead there. In Cerro Gordo County, lightning struck a barn near Meservey. The barn was set on fire and was totally lost.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindScarville$50,000no account filed
April 1994HailScarville$50,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindScarville$40,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindScarville$40,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindScarville$35,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodScarville$30,000Streets were closed due to flooding at the intersection of south 10th and North Mills at the 100 block.
July 2013Flash FloodScarville$25,000A sink hole developed near the intersection of 480th and 160th due to heavy rain.
October 2006HailScarville$25,000no account filed
June 2008HailScarville$15,000no account filed
June 2008HailScarville$15,000no account filed
June 2008HailScarville$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailScarville$5,000Two trees two feet in diameter were blown down.
June 2008HailScarville$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindScarville$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindScarville$4,000no account filed
October 2006HailScarville$3,000no account filed
July 2005HailScarville$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindScarville$2,000Four inch branches were downed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindScarville$1,000Spotter reported power was out in town from straight line winds.
June 2008HailScarville$1,000no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudScarville-Public reported a funnel cloud.
June 2008Funnel CloudScarville-no account filed
June 2004HailScarville-no account filed
July 2003HailScarville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Vinje3.1 miles7
Lake Mills5.7 miles7
Norman (historical)6.5 miles7
Leland9.2 miles7
Amund (historical)9.3 miles7
Ratna (historical)10.4 miles8
Thompson10.7 miles7
Forest City14.4 miles7

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 ScarvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925765The 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 461455. 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.