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.
Population over time
2 figuresSpring 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 63 | |
| 2020 | 68 | +5 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Norwalk quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2013Regional 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 minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lockridge Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Spring Hill | $750,000 | Tornado west to west northwest of Indianola. Multiple reports with barns and houses damaged. |
| May 2016 | Lightning | Spring Hill | $100,000 | WHO 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $50,000 | Public reported large trees and power lines down. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Spring Hill | $10,000 | Numerous 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 2014 | Hail | Spring Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Spring Hill | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Spring Hill | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A few large tree branches blown out of trees. Time estimated via radar. |
| October 2019 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.49 inches over the past 24 hours. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | CoCoRaHS report of 1.6 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and 1.82 inches in the past 48 hours. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | CoCoRaHS report of 1.60 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | Trained spotter emptied an estimated 4.00 inches from their rain gauge today. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | Rainfall of 4.20 inches for the day. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | Rainfall in the past 24 hours was 3.19 inches. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Spring Hill | - | Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 6.78 inches, with 9.31 over the past 2 days. |
| June 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| February 2014 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| February 2014 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbush | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Prole | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Norwalk | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Summerset | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Martensdale | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Churchville | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Summerset Junction (historical) | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Indianola | 5.9 miles | 11 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925557 | 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 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.






