Templeton, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51463. The Survey maps it on the Templeton quadrangle. 352 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTempleton fell from 362 to 352 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 | 362 | |
| 2020 | 352 | -10 (-3%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Templeton quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Templeton between 2006 and 2015, burning about 180 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 28234 HWY 71 AND 280TH WEST TEMPLETON, IA |
| 9 June 2012 | Smoking | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Templeton in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Templeton | $200,000 | A tornado damaged 3 farmsteads in southern Carroll County as it moved east from near Templeton toward Dedham. A machine shed was completely destroyed and numerous outbuildings sustained damage. Widespread tree damage was also reported. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Templeton | $150,000 | Tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 141 and Hawthorne. A farmstead was hit along the path, flattening the barn and damaging the homestead. Power lines were also downed by the tornado. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $25,000 | A 50 year old large tree was blown down along with several other limbs covering the roads in the town of Templeton. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $20,000 | Large tree limbs down with nickel hail as well. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $15,000 | Tree limbs down up to 2 inches in diameter. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Templeton | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported gravel washed away around Highway 141 and Falcon Ave. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $10,000 | Eight inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $5,000 | A trained spotter measured wind gusts up to 58 mph. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Templeton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Templeton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Templeton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Templeton | - | The tornado was captured via a photograph and found on social media. It was a brief landspout located south of Templeton Iowa impacting no damage indicator, hence the EFU rating. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | - | A trained spotter reported a large tree down on a house and garage while also pulling down power lines. Other two to six inch diameter branches down and a flag pole blown over. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | - | A trainer spotter reported large trees down blocking roads. Wind was still blowing at time of report. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Templeton | - | Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail. |
| October 2014 | Heavy Rain | Templeton | - | Rainfall of 3.40 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Templeton | - | Rainfall measurement over the past 24 hours was 1.18 inches. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Templeton | - | No damage was reported. |
| August 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Templeton | - | Brief funnel clouds forming and dissipating. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Templeton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Templeton | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Templeton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roselle | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Halbur | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Dedham | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Manning | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Willey | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Carrollton | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Carroll | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Maple River | 12.5 miles | 8 |
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 Templeton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2740963 | 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 462191. 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.
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.





