Tabor, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Tabor City. It lies in ZIP code area 51653. The Survey maps it on the Tabor quadrangle. 1,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
On record in Tabor
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 4 records
Hunter Schoollisted 2007
Tabor Congregational Churchlisted 2011
Todd Houselisted 1975- Tabor Antislavery Historic Districtlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresTabor fell from 1,040 to 1,014 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 | 1,040 | |
| 2020 | 1,014 | -26 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Tabor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tabor between 2009 and 2019, burning about 12 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/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1141 PLUM CREEK RD, TABOR, IA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tabor: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tabor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabor in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Hail | Tabor | $50,000 | Warm, moist, and unstable air poured into Iowa during the day. By the early evening hours thunderstorms erupted over eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa where convection broke through the capping layer. The storms produced hail over the far southwest corner of the state. The hail ranged from dime-size to golf ball-size. Considerable damage was reported to the crops in the area. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | $5,000 | Roof shingles ripped off of a home. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Tabor | - | Local law enforcement reported flooding along Green Hollow Road near the city of Tabor. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a business, partially lifting off the roof and tossing it downstream. There was also damage to a crane and minor tree damage in the area. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew over a tree near the school in Tabor. The winds also caused some crop damage and spotty power outages in the area. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Tabor | - | The hail was accompanied by 50 mph winds and caused some crop damage. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Tabor | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabor | - | 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.
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 Tabor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2240032 | 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 462169. 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.





