Seymour, Iowa
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52590. The Survey maps it on the Seymour East quadrangle. 634 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSeymour fell from 701 to 634 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 | 701 | |
| 2020 | 634 | -67 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1942 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Seymour East quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Seymour between 2008 and 2015, burning about 52 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 59150 210TH, IA |
| 12 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3147 190TH, IA |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 October 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
42 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seymour in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 17 heavy rain, 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | $150,000 | Water was reported over the roads and some were washed out. A storm total of 6.5 inches of rain fell with rain still falling. |
| October 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Seymour | $100,000 | The Wayne County EM reported a roof blown off of a building, windows blown out of homes, and power lines down in the town of Seymour. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $70,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Seymour | $50,000 | Water across County Road S60 just north of Seymour. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $30,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $15,000 | Outbuildings were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported power lines and trees down. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $10,000 | Wayne County emergency manager reported power lines down in town. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $10,000 | Numerous medium to large trees and small branches blown down. Reported by WHO TV 13. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Seymour | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $5,000 | Emergency Manager reported 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $5,000 | Large tree limbs blown down in the town of Seymour. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Seymour | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Seymour | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Seymour | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $3,000 | Estimated winds of 60 MPH with dime size hail and torrential rain. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Seymour | $2,000 | Heavy rain and strong wind as well. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Coop observer reported 3.25 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.89 inches. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 5.77 inches over the past 24 hours. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.22 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches so far today, and 1.7 inches since 330pm. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported power out one mile west of Seymour along with very strong winds and heavy rainfall. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported water over multiple roads in Seymour. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.90 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.62 inches of rain since about 2 am. |
| November 2015 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.40 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Two inches of rain had fallen since 1430 CST with 3-4 inches of water flowing pretty quickly across County Road 230th just northwest of Seymour. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Spotter reported 4.00 inches of rain from the afternoon on the 10th through the evening and overnight hours of the 10th into the 11th. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Rainfall of 7.5 inches was reported. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Six inches of rain fell since 1900 CST last night. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Four inches of rain in the past 24 hours. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Seymour | - | Brief hail was reported with the storm. It was mostly pea size, with a few as large as pennies. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Rainfall of 3.7 inches. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Five inches of rain has fallen this evening. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Seymour | - | Rainfall since Thursday evening was 6.30 inches, with a 24 hour total of 8.40 inches. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Seymour | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Seymour | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promise City | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Genoa | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Bridgeport | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Sewal | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Harvard | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Corydon | 11.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bethelhem | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Confidence | 12.4 miles | 11 |
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 Seymour | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925576 | 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 461518. 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.
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.






