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Silver City, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ingraham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51571. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Silver City within Mills County

Population over time

2 figures

Silver City grew from 245 to 245 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
2010245
20202450 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 2011 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources63033 287TH ST., IA
10 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesOPK TOWNSHIP
19 February 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 January 2020Debris and open burning7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Silver City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Silver City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mills County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Mesonet measured wind gust of 60 mph.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindSilver City-A 61 mph wind gust was measured by a personal weather station, associated with an 8 degree Fahrenheit heat burst.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSilver City-A 59 miles per hour wind gust was measured on a personal weather station.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSilver City-A trained spotter reported an old oak tree that had been snapped about 20 feet up the trunk. Several smaller branches were also noted as being blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSilver City-A mesonet station recorded a 64 miles per hour wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Public reported estimated wind gusts of 90 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Public reported large tree limbs blown down.
June 2016HailSilver City-Most of the hail was reported to be nickle or smaller, but there were a few hailstones up to ping pong ball. The combination of the hail and wind stripped the leaves from the corn in the area.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Minor structural damage as well as power poles downed were reported between Mineola and Silver City.
June 2008HailSilver City-Hail up to 3/4 of an inch was reported 4 miles northeast of Glenwood.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph downed power poles in town.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSilver City-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew down a barn near Silver City. The winds were accompanied by dime size hail.
July 2000HailSilver City-Reported by law enforcement official.
July 2006HailSilver City-no account filed
June 2003HailSilver City-no account filed
July 2000HailSilver City-no account filed
July 1999HailSilver City-no account filed
April 1998HailSilver City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mills 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
Mineola3.7 miles11
Balfour4.7 miles12
Glenwood7.2 miles12
Hillsdale7.5 miles12
Malvern8.1 miles10
Mills9.4 miles13
Hastings9.6 miles9
Folsom9.7 miles13

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 Silver CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925592The 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 461609. 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.