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Sloan, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sloan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51055. The Survey maps it on the Sloan quadrangle. 1,042 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

Sloan within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Sloan grew from 973 to 1,042 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
2010973
20201,042+69 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sloan between 2009 and 2014, burning about 115 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
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
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Arson/incendiarism35 acresWinnebago AgencyROSALIE #004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloan in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 4 tornado, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodSloan$6,790,000Water inundated western areas of Moville during the evening of March 13, and continued through early on March 15. Iowa Highway 140 was closed north of Highway 20 at Moville due to flooding. At the height of the flooding, 29 sections of roadway were closed in Woodbury County, including two sections requiring long term repairs (Highway 982 near Holly Springs and County road L37 near Danbury). Other flooding resulted in extensive damage to public infrastructure. Gravel roads were hit especially hard as ice-plugged culverts resulted in large sections of roadway washing away.
June 2024FloodSloan$4,130,000Rainfall amounts across Woodbury County from June 20-22 were generally 1.0 inch or less. Farther north and upstream, 6 to 10 inches fell across portions of northwest Iowa and southeast South Dakota. This rainfall resulted in record flooding along the Big Sioux, Little Sioux, and Floyd Rivers, and extensive overland flooding along the adjoining flood plains. ||Multiple communities were impacted by flood waters. At peak flooding, numerous swift water rescues were conducted. Approximately 1,000 people were evacuated from the Riverside Neighborhood of Sioux City, 500 people were evacuated from Correctionville, and 10 people were evacuated from Smithland. County-wide, there were approximately 300 homes that were damaged and 10 that were destroyed. ||Public infrastructure was also severely impacted. Approximately 50 roads and bridges were closed due to flood waters. The railroad bridge across the Big Sioux River to South Dakota collapsed. The Correctionville energy transfer station and sewage lift station failed, while the fire station and city hall flooded. The Smithland sewage lift station failed and the Sioux City Wastewater Treatment Plant was damaged. Preliminary damage assessments estimate the loss to public infrastructure to be 4.13 million dollars.
October 2013Tornado (EF2)Sloan$400,000A tornado, crossing into Woodbury County from Monona County Iowa, severely damaged at least two houses, collapsing two walls and blowing the roof off one of the houses. The tornado also destroyed or damaged numerous farm outbuildings and storage buildings, including several structures at a hog farm, and a large metal storage building. The tornado also destroyed open air buildings at a dairy farm. The tornado blew down power lines and poles, and caused considerable tree damage, including trees snapped off at their trunks. Corn crops were flattened in a few areas.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSloan$200,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSloan$100,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a barn and several sheds, and blew off or damaged the roofs of several buildings. The winds also caused tree and power line damage, with resulting power outages.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSloan$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large trees down. Power lines were also blown down, causing a power outage. A semi truck was blown over and damaged near Sloan.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSloan$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, and tree limbs falling on power lines caused a power outage that lasted for several hours.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSloan$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off several roofs, destroyed a grain bin, blew down power lines, and caused tree damage.
October 2013Tornado (EF1)Sloan$20,000A tornado destroyed or damaged outbuildings on a farm, and caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSloan$5,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down. The winds also blew down power lines, some of which fell onto a house.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindSloan$5,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSloan-Several moderate-sized branches were removed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSloan-Several medium-sized limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019FloodSloan-During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSloan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSloan-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
July 2003HailSloan-Large hail damaged crops and vehicles. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Sloan-A tornado was observed by National Weather Service trained spotters and law enforcement officials. The tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2024HailSloan-no account filed
June 2024HailSloan-no account filed
June 2024HailSloan-no account filed
June 2024HailSloan-no account filed
April 2016HailSloan-no account filed
April 2016HailSloan-no account filed
April 2016HailSloan-no account filed
April 2011HailSloan-no account filed
May 2007HailSloan-no account filed
July 2003HailSloan-no account filed
June 1998HailSloan-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindSloan-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Sloan-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSloan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Owego5.1 miles9
Salix6.1 miles11
Hornick6.9 miles9
Luton7.4 miles9
Holly Springs8.4 miles9
Climbing Hill10.9 miles9
Bronson12.3 miles9
Sergeant Bluff13.7 miles12

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 SloanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925355The 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 461673. 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.