Sully, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lynn Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50251. The Survey maps it on the Sully quadrangle. 881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSully grew from 821 to 881 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 | 821 | |
| 2020 | 881 | +60 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 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
- 1980 USGS Sully quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grinnell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sully: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northcutt Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Sully Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sully in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $120,000 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $100,000 | An air exchanger on the rooftop was ripped off. Around one quarter of the roof of the gym of the Lynnville-Sully school was peeled back with a section of the roof thrown 50 to 100 feet to the east of the building, causing some tree damage. One window was blown out. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $75,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $25,000 | Numerous power power outages were reported along with three power poles down near Highway F62. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Sully | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported power poles leaning in the town of Sully. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sully | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $5,000 | Law enforcement also reported power lines down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sully | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | $1,000 | Trained spotter reported a large 1.5 foot diameter tree down in front of a business in Sully. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Sully | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Sully | - | Quarter sized hail reported near Sully. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | - | Trained spotter reported estimated 60 mph wind gusts. Taken from mping. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Sully | - | Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Sully | - | Report via social media. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Sully | - | Public reported nickel sized hail, via social media. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Sully | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sully | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sully | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynnville | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Killduff | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Galesburg | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Turner (historical) | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Murphy | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Reasnor | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Oakland Acres | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Kellogg | 10.2 miles | 9 |
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 Sully | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q676391 | 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 462071. 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.
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.





