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.
Population over time
2 figuresSilver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 245 | |
| 2020 | 245 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2011Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 63033 287TH ST., IA |
| 10 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | OPK TOWNSHIP |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 January 2020 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Mesonet measured wind gust of 60 mph. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | A 61 mph wind gust was measured by a personal weather station, associated with an 8 degree Fahrenheit heat burst. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | A 59 miles per hour wind gust was measured on a personal weather station. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | A mesonet station recorded a 64 miles per hour wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Public reported estimated wind gusts of 90 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Public reported large tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Silver 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Minor structural damage as well as power poles downed were reported between Mineola and Silver City. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Silver City | - | Hail up to 3/4 of an inch was reported 4 miles northeast of Glenwood. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph downed power poles in town. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver 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 2000 | Hail | Silver City | - | Reported by law enforcement official. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Silver City | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Silver City | - | 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.
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925592 | 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 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.





