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Spring Hill, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50125. It stands on Felters Branch. The Survey maps it on the Norwalk quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Hill grew from 63 to 68 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
201063
202068+5 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 2013 and 2015, burning about 5 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
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Spring Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Lockridge Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 7 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2010Tornado (EF1)Spring Hill$750,000Tornado west to west northwest of Indianola. Multiple reports with barns and houses damaged.
May 2016LightningSpring Hill$100,000WHO Des Moines reported a fire at a Warren County pet cemetery and funeral home in the early morning hours. Given the building was under construction with no current electrical, it was suspected that an overnight/early morning storm sparked the blaze with lightning. The call for the fire came in around 5 am and it is estimated that the lightning strike was around 4:30 am based on radar data. ||The building fire drew crews from North Warren, Carlisle, and Norwalk.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$50,000Public reported large trees and power lines down.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Spring Hill$10,000Numerous reports via social media of tree damage associated with this tornado. It also produced a TDS on radar as it moved to the northeast.
June 2014HailSpring Hill$5,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$5,000no account filed
April 2008HailSpring Hill$3,000no account filed
May 2001HailSpring Hill$3,000no account filed
April 2008HailSpring Hill$2,000no account filed
May 2000HailSpring Hill$1,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A few large tree branches blown out of trees. Time estimated via radar.
October 2019Heavy RainSpring Hill-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.49 inches over the past 24 hours.
April 2017Heavy RainSpring Hill-CoCoRaHS report of 1.6 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and 1.82 inches in the past 48 hours.
April 2017Heavy RainSpring Hill-CoCoRaHS report of 1.60 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainSpring Hill-Trained spotter emptied an estimated 4.00 inches from their rain gauge today.
September 2014Heavy RainSpring Hill-Rainfall of 4.20 inches for the day.
August 2014Heavy RainSpring Hill-Rainfall in the past 24 hours was 3.19 inches.
June 2011Heavy RainSpring Hill-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 6.78 inches, with 9.31 over the past 2 days.
June 2024Funnel CloudSpring Hill-no account filed
February 2014HailSpring Hill-no account filed
February 2014HailSpring Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Greenbush1.1 miles11
Prole4.4 miles11
Norwalk4.8 miles11
Summerset5.5 miles11
Martensdale5.5 miles11
Churchville5.7 miles9
Summerset Junction (historical)5.8 miles11
Indianola5.9 miles11

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 Spring HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925557The 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 461898. 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.