BlockSoldier, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Soldier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51572. The Survey maps it on the Moorhead quadrangle. 184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSoldier grew from 174 to 184 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 | 174 | |
| 2020 | 184 | +10 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Moorhead quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soldier in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Soldier | $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Soldier | $3,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Soldier | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Soldier | - | A tornado developed near the intersection of 260th and 270th Streets. It produced damage to outbuildings at a farmstead near this intersection and tossed some fiberglass boats. The tornado moved across agricultural fields generally northeast paralleling State Highway 183 to the west. It produced damage to trees along Redwood Avenue and snapped a power pole at the intersection of State Highway 37 and Redwood Avenue. The tornado moved just west of the community of Soldier, producing no discernable damage to any homes or businesses on the west side of town. Radar signatures indicate the tornado continued to move northeast across agricultural lands, moving north of 245th Street, damaging trees and outbuildings, before dissipating just east of Spruce Avenue. Peak winds in this tornado were estimated at 98 miles per hour. The maximum width was measured at 250 yards, with the average width estimated at 100 yards. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | Public reported a downed 12-inch diameter tree branch that feel through a window. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | Numerous large tree limbs were reported blown down in town. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Soldier | - | A trained spotter reported that hail a little larger than nickel-size fell. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | One small tree and at least a few other large branches were downed around town. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph by a trained spotter downed tree limbs 2 to 3 inches in diameter across scattered locations around town. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | A ham radio operator measured thunderstorm winds of 73 mph on home weather equipment. There were a few tree limbs downed because of the winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph downed trees which blocked a few roads west of Soldier. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down 3 inch tree limbs in Soldier. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soldier | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Soldier | - | 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 Soldier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925540 | 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 461739. 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.
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.