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State Center, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in State Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50247. The Survey maps it on the State Center quadrangle. 1,391 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

State Center within Marshall County

On record in State Center

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

State Center fell from 1,468 to 1,391 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
20101,468
20201,391-77 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

24 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of State Center between 2006 and 2020, burning about 90 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 State Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names State Center in 62 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 9 heavy rain, 4 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
April 1994Tornado (F1)State Center$500,000no account filed
June 2000Tornado (F1)State Center$150,000Intermittent track
May 1998HailState Center$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindState Center$75,000no account filed
May 1998HailState Center$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindState Center$50,000no account filed
April 1994HailState Center$50,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindState Center$30,000no account filed
May 2001HailState Center$30,000no account filed
March 2008Flash FloodState Center$25,000Water was reported flowing over Highway 30.
March 2008Flash FloodState Center$25,000Water was reported flowing over Highway 30. In addition, water was flowing over Highway 65 near Zearing and just south of Colo. Numerous county roads have water over them.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindState Center$25,000no account filed
September 2004Tornado (F0)State Center$20,000Tornado tracked across open country but did damage trees, sheds, and a grain bin.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindState Center$20,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindState Center$15,000Several ten inch limbs down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindState Center$15,000Part of a metal roof was blown off part of a car wash and a portion of a gas station canopy was blown off. A storage shed was pushed four feet off the foundation by high winds.
June 2011HailState Center$15,000no account filed
June 2011HailState Center$15,000no account filed
May 2019HailState Center$10,000Emergency manager reported ping pong ball sized hail.
May 2010HailState Center$10,000Marshall County EM relayed a report of quarter to walnut size hail covering the ground at State Center.
September 2004Tornado (F1)State Center$10,000Tornado tracked through rural areas of Marshall County west of State Center.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindState Center$10,000no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindState Center$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailState Center$10,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindState Center$10,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindState Center$10,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindState Center$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailState Center$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailState Center$10,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000Three power lines downed. Wind tied to outflow boundary ahead of the storm.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000Pea to dime size hail with the wind.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000no account filed
July 2003HailState Center$5,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000no account filed
June 2000HailState Center$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000no account filed
April 1996HailState Center$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindState Center$5,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindState Center$3,000Four to six inch tree branches down with power outages.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindState Center$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailState Center$3,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindState Center$3,000no account filed
April 2014HailState Center$2,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindState Center$2,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindState Center$2,000no account filed
July 2008HailState Center$1,000no account filed
March 2005HailState Center$1,000no account filed
May 2024Heavy RainState Center-Trained spotter relayed 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.75 inches.
July 2023Heavy RainState Center-Event total of 2.95 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainState Center-Public report via social media of 1.9 inches of rain between 4:45pm and 5:45pm CDT.
June 2020Heavy RainState Center-Public measured 1.95 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindState Center-Emergency manager reported significant damage in State Center with numerous cars blown off US 30 and flipped.
July 2015Heavy RainState Center-Marshall county Emergency Manager measured 4.20 inches of total rainfall for the event.
July 2015Heavy RainState Center-Updated 24 hour rainfall amount of approximately 6.40 inches reported by the county Emergency Manager.
December 2015Heavy RainState Center-Emergency manager reported heavy rainfall of 6.38 inches storm total.
May 2013Heavy RainState Center-Rainfall total was 4.94 inches.
May 2013Heavy RainState Center-Rainfall total was 3.94 inches.
April 2010HailState Center-A few stones of nickel size; pea size hail nearly covered the ground.
April 2015HailState Center-no account filed
June 2011HailState Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Malta4.2 miles8
Melbourne6.1 miles8
Edenville6.3 miles8
Rhodes6.4 miles8
LaMoille6.7 miles9
Clemons6.7 miles9
Bromley7.3 miles9
Saint Anthony7.5 miles9

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 State CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913026The 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 461964. 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.