Sherrill, Iowa
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52073. It stands on Sherrill Mound. The Survey maps it on the Sherrill quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.
On record in Sherrill
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 2 records
Haberkorn House and Farmsteadlisted 1980
Sherrill Mount Houselisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresSherrill grew from 177 to 189 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 | 177 | |
| 2020 | 189 | +12 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1900 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Sherrill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sherrill in 2007, burning about 2 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sherrill: 8 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonson Mine | Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Galena, Limonite, Sphalerite | |
| Durango Drybone Mine Ewing Diggings | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Smithsonite | |
| Bonson Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Dubuque Subdistrict | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC | |
| Durango Drybone Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Sherrill Mound Subdistrict | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD ZINC | |
| Sherrills Mound Mines | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Klein Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kutsch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mattloch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherrill in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 4 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Sherrill | - | An EF-1 tornado developed southeast of Sherrill and moved northeast causing significant damage to outbuildings and uprooting trees at several farmsteads. The tornado was rated EF-1 with maximum wind speeds estimated around 110 mph. There were no injuries, and the damaged ended before it crossed the Mississippi River. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Sherrill | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Sherrill | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Sherrill | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Sherrill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durango | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Old Balltown | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| East Rickardsville | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Rose | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Balltown | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Budd | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Five Points | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Sageville | 5.3 miles | 19 |
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 Sherrill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925515 | 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 461574. 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.








