BlockTennant, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Shelby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51537. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTennant grew from 68 to 78 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 78 | +10 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tennant in 2009, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2009 | 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
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tennant in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Tennant | $5,000 | This tornado briefly touched down knocking down power lines which ignited a few trees. From the same mini-supercell that produced the 2 tornadoes that touched down near Emerson and Carson, Iowa. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Tennant | - | At 818 PM CDT, a landspout developed half a mile north of 500th Street in southwestern Shelby County. This landspout tracked north-northeast for approximately two minutes over open farmland. The tornado dissipated just under half a mile northeast of the end of 550th Street. No damage indicators were hit, and there was no discernable damage after the fact, hence this was assigned an EF-U rating. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tennant | - | Emergency manager reported that a large tree fell on a home. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tennant | - | Crops were flatted along county road F58. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tennant | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tennant | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Tennant | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Tennant | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Tennant | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Portsmouth | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Corley | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Harlan | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Westphalia | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Panama | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Earling | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kirkman | 13.2 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 Tennant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2247808 | 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 462194. 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.