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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.

Templeton within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Templeton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010362
2020352-10 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

17 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources28234 HWY 71 AND 280TH WEST TEMPLETON, IA
9 June 2012Smoking10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

28 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Templeton$200,000A 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 2008Tornado (EF1)Templeton$150,000Tornado 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 2001Thunderstorm WindTempleton$30,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTempleton$25,000A 50 year old large tree was blown down along with several other limbs covering the roads in the town of Templeton.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTempleton$20,000Large tree limbs down with nickel hail as well.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindTempleton$15,000Tree limbs down up to 2 inches in diameter.
May 2016Flash FloodTempleton$10,000Law Enforcement reported gravel washed away around Highway 141 and Falcon Ave.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTempleton$10,000Eight inch diameter tree limbs down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindTempleton$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTempleton$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTempleton$5,000A trained spotter measured wind gusts up to 58 mph.
July 2008HailTempleton$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailTempleton$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTempleton$5,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindTempleton$3,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindTempleton$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailTempleton$1,000no account filed
July 2022Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindTempleton-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 2020Thunderstorm WindTempleton-A trainer spotter reported large trees down blocking roads. Wind was still blowing at time of report.
May 2019HailTempleton-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.
October 2014Heavy RainTempleton-Rainfall of 3.40 inches in the past 24 hours.
August 2014Heavy RainTempleton-Rainfall measurement over the past 24 hours was 1.18 inches.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTempleton-No damage was reported.
August 2010Funnel CloudTempleton-Brief funnel clouds forming and dissipating.
June 2011HailTempleton-no account filed
June 2011HailTempleton-no account filed
June 1999HailTempleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Roselle5.8 miles8
Halbur6.3 miles8
Dedham6.4 miles9
Manning6.5 miles8
Willey7.6 miles9
Carrollton10.5 miles9
Carroll10.9 miles8
Maple River12.5 miles8

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 TempletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2740963The 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.