Stacyville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stacyville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50476. The Survey maps it on the Stacyville quadrangle. 458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Stacyville within Mitchell County

On record in Stacyville

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

Union Presbyterian Churchlisted 1977

Population over time

2 figures

Stacyville fell from 494 to 458 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	494
2020	458	-36 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Stacyville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Charles City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Stacyville between 2011 and 2020, burning about 95 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
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2020	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	4903 LANCER AVE., IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stacyville: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Little Cedar Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stacyville in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Tornado (F1)	Stacyville	$500,000	no account filed
June 2015	Flash Flood	Stacyville	$200,000	Locally heavy rains caused the Little Cedar River to rapidly come out of its banks and wash out 480th Street between Monument and Ocean Avenues north of Stacyville.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Stacyville	$50,000	Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding to occur along Watsons Creek. The flood waters went over Addison Road north of Riceville. Flooding also occurred along the Little Cedar River in the vicinity of Stacyville. Sandbagging operations were performed northwest of Osage in an effort to protect residences from flooding along Sugar Creek.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown over, a shed was destroyed, a barn roof damaged and wind turbine blades bent in or near Stacyville.
October 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$25,000	The seasons first strongly dynamic weather system moved through the central U.S. The surface low formed over the Rockies and advanced across the plains into South Dakota by the late afternoon hours of the 6th. A cold front arched southeast and south of the low across central South Dakota into eastern Nebraska during the late afternoon hours. During the afternoon hours, the middle level dry slot raced north across Kansas, eastern Nebraska, into South Dakota. The surface showed an unstable weather situation. To the east of the cold front, which was actually more a dry line than a cold front, temperatures reached the upper 70s to lower 80s, with dew point temperatures in the lower to middle 60s. Dew point temperatures briefly reach 70 at a few locations during the early evening hours. Behind the dry line, dew point temperatures dropped to the upper 30s and 40s, with a few upper 20s in under the core of the dry slot. Directional sheer was weak, however a strong speed sheer existed. Lifted indices were around -5° C with a nearly 80 kt wind speed in the middle levels. Helicity values increased to around 350 M2/S2 in the pre-storm environment. A line of thunderstorms fired up during the mid to late afternoon hours. The storms quickly became severe as they moved into western Iowa. The hardest hit area was the west central counties where many areas were pelted with large hail. Monona and Crawford Counties were especially hard hit as a series of severe storms moved northeast along the main line of storms. There were numerous reports of golf ball size hail. One storm produced baseball size hail as it passed over the Ute area of Monona County. Baseball size hail also fell a short time later east of Soldier. WSR-88D radar VIL values with this storm were in the 60-65 Kg/M-2 range with the storm. A deep meso circulation was detected over northern Shelby and southern Crawford Counties with one of the storms. A tornado warning was issued. A funnel cloud was reported east of Defiance in Shelby County. It became a tornado briefly south of Manilla near the Shelby/Crawford County line. It passed through fields, causing some crop damage. The tornado dissipated with only a funnel cloud remaining as it passed over Manilla. A short time earlier, these storms produced golf ball size hail southeast of Earling in Shelby County. One farmstead reported 5 windows being broken out by the hail. Siding on the house was also damaged. The storms weakened as the moved east during the early evening. As the line advanced, a weak bow echo formed along the line. This bow echo produced gusty winds of 55 to 60 MPH as it passed over Webster, Boone, Wright, and Winnebago Counties. Damage was minor, however many trees were downed. The roof of one building was blown off and strewn across a field near Gowrie in Webster County. Part of a roof was torn off of a shed at Forest City in Winnebago County. The roof was removed from another farm building on a farmstead near Stacyville in Mitchell County. Damage was also reported west of Pilot Mound and north of Ogden in Boone County. High winds destroyed a 60 X 100 foot farm building on a farm north of Ogden. Damage on that farm was close to $50,000. The storms continued east but weakened slightly. Winds of 40 to 55 MPH were common, however the storms remained below severe levels through the rest of the night.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$18,000	no account filed
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Stacyville	$15,000	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Stacyville	$8,500	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$5,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Stacyville	$5,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$2,000	Power lines were downed in Stacyville.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$2,000	Trees were blown down in Stacyville.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$2,000	Trees were blown down in Stacyville. One of these landed across a road by Riverside Park.
September 2005	Hail	Stacyville	$1,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$750	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stacyville	$500	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Stacyville	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported near Stacyville.
July 2023	Hail	Stacyville	-	Public reported penny sized hail near Stacyville.
April 2017	Hail	Stacyville	-	Half dollar sized hail fell in Stacyville.
July 2013	Hail	Stacyville	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Stacyville.
April 2013	Hail	Stacyville	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Stacyville.
September 2010	Flood	Stacyville	-	The Little Cedar River over-topped its banks which caused Riverside Park in Stacyville to flood.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Stacyville	-	A brief tornado touched down about 2 to 3 miles northwest of Stacyville, as reported by law enforcement officials and storm spotters. The Stacyville police chief photographed the tornado. There was no damage reported.
July 2013	Hail	Stacyville	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Stacyville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Little Cedar	4.9 miles	7
Meyer	5.0 miles	7
Toeterville	5.7 miles	7
Stacyville Junction	8.0 miles	7
Saint Ansgar	8.3 miles	7
Brownville	8.6 miles	7
Mitchell	9.1 miles	7
Mona	9.1 miles	7

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 Stacyville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998848	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 461945. 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.