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Terril, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lloyd Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51364. The Survey maps it on the Terril quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Terril within Dickinson County

Population over time

2 figures

Terril fell from 367 to 334 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
2010367
2020334-33 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Terril in 2017, burning about 1 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/undetermined1

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
25 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Terril: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terril in 36 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 19 hail, 15 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindTerril$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. Small hail driven by the winds broke windows.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTerril$1,000A two-foot diameter tree was snapped near the base. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTerril-Several small tree limbs downed by estimated 50 to 60 mph thunderstorm winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTerril-Winds were measured by a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTerril-A power pole was forced to lean over and several large tree branches were broken by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by mesonet station IATERRI4.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 62 mph were measured by a personal weather station.
June 2019Tornado (EFU)Terril-A brief landspout spun up near the intersection of 220th Street and 280th Avenue. The tornado traveled slowly eastward over barren cropland, dissipating before reaching 290th Avenue. The average path width was 10 yards.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindTerril-The roof was blown off the VFW building. A large tree was also broken in half.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one tree uprooted.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a 14 inch diameter tree snapped.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Terril-A brief tornado tracked over open fields and caused no reported damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 12 inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 2014HailTerril-Hail was mostly quarter size or smaller, with a few stones as large as golf balls.
June 2012HailTerril-Large hail was accompanied by damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down.
June 2012HailTerril-Large hail, driven by strong winds, caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 6 inch diameter limbs broken off. The winds were accompanied by quarter size hail.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTerril-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
May 2023HailTerril-no account filed
April 2022HailTerril-no account filed
June 2019HailTerril-no account filed
May 2015HailTerril-no account filed
June 2014HailTerril-no account filed
July 2012HailTerril-no account filed
July 2009HailTerril-no account filed
August 2005HailTerril-no account filed
May 2004HailTerril-no account filed
June 2004HailTerril-no account filed
August 2004HailTerril-no account filed
May 2002HailTerril-no account filed
June 2001HailTerril-no account filed
June 2001HailTerril-no account filed
August 2001HailTerril-no account filed
May 1999HailTerril-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Superior8.7 miles7
Old Town9.2 miles8
Crows Nest Resort9.3 miles7
Arnolds Park9.3 miles7
Milford9.5 miles8
Village East Resort10.0 miles8
Spirit Lake10.6 miles7
West Okoboji10.6 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 TerrilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956539The 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 462198. 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.