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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.

Sully within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Sully 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.

YearPeople Change
2010821
2020881+60 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Northcutt QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Sully Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSully$120,000no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindSully$100,000An 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 1998Thunderstorm WindSully$75,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindSully$25,000Numerous power power outages were reported along with three power poles down near Highway F62.
June 2001HailSully$25,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSully$10,000Emergency manager reported power poles leaning in the town of Sully. Time estimated from radar.
May 2001HailSully$10,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSully$5,000Law enforcement also reported power lines down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSully$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailSully$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSully$1,000Trained spotter reported a large 1.5 foot diameter tree down in front of a business in Sully. Time estimated from radar.
July 2000LightningSully$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailSully-Quarter sized hail reported near Sully.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSully-Trained spotter reported estimated 60 mph wind gusts. Taken from mping.
April 2023HailSully-Time estimated by radar.
May 2023HailSully-Report via social media.
March 2017HailSully-Public reported nickel sized hail, via social media.
April 2023HailSully-no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindSully-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindSully-no account filed
May 2001HailSully-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Lynnville3.3 miles8
Killduff3.8 miles8
Galesburg5.5 miles8
Turner (historical)8.7 miles8
Murphy8.8 miles9
Reasnor9.5 miles9
Oakland Acres9.7 miles8
Kellogg10.2 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 SullyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q676391The 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.