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South English, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in English River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52335. The Survey maps it on the South English quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

South English within Keokuk County

On record in South English

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

South English fell from 212 to 202 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
2010212
2020202-10 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of South English between 2008 and 2017, burning about 88 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning2

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
9 April 2014Debris and open burning4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources29271 170TH STREET, IOWA SOUTH ENGLISH, IOWA
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources30748 242ND ST., HARPER, IA
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keokuk 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 South English: 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
Keota QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South English in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003HailSouth English$500,000no account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF0)South English$50,000An EF0 tornado moved northeast for about 2 miles just northeast of South English. Some shingles were blown off a few houses, some outbuildings and a machine shed were damaged or destroyed, and some trees were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth English-A public report of estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth English-A few trees reported blown down in South English, as reported by the North English COOP observer.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth English-The town fire department report power was out in portions of the town.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindSouth English-The fire department reported that power poles were snapped and a hog building lost its roof near North English. This report was delayed and the time was estimated to have occurred between 11 and 1130 PM.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindSouth English-A trained spotter reported that 2 inch diameter tree limbs were down in town.
April 2011HailSouth English-Quarter sized hail fell 3 miles northeast of Webster, IA around 647 pm CDT April 3.
May 2011HailSouth English-Half dollar sized hail fell in South English, IA around 516 pm CDT May 22.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSouth English-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree branches just east of South English, IA.

Every storm recorded in Keokuk 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
Creswell (historical)4.1 miles7
Webster4.3 miles7
Kinross5.5 miles7
Harper6.5 miles7
Keswick7.9 miles7
Aurora8.5 miles7
Keota9.5 miles7
Sigourney10.2 miles7

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 South EnglishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q550009The 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 461775. 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.