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Tiffin, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52340. It lies near Sand Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tiffin quadrangle. 4,512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Tiffin within Johnson County

Population over time

2 figures

Tiffin grew from 1,947 to 4,512 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
20101,947
20204,512+2,565 (+132%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Tiffin between 2006 and 2015, burning about 74 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking1

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
19 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Smoking1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Tiffin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Klein QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiffin in 37 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2010LightningTiffin1 hurt, $1,000Lightning struck a home at 283 Woodfield Drive in Tiffin, IA around 310 pm CDT August 20. A teenage male was shocked while using a laptop computer at the time of the lightning strike. The residence sustained minor damage.
April 2006HailTiffin$15,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTiffin$5,000power lines down
April 2006HailTiffin$500also reported by hams; dime to nickel size hail
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Trees blown down in Tiffin. The time was based on radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTiffin-A large 4 foot diameter tree down. Power lines also down.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Estimated 70 mph wind gust with the thunderstorm.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Several significant trees down over 1 foot and a half in diameter.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Estimated 75 mph winds with thunderstorm, with dime to nickel sized hail.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Estimated 70 to 80 mph wind gusts, with dust and reduced visibility. Also dime to nickel hail.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Thunderstorm winds threw a trampoline against a home, damaging the siding and driving a pole into the house.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindTiffin-A trained spotter reported severe winds.
June 2020Flash FloodTiffin-Law enforcement reported 4 inch deep water flowing across Highway 6 in Tiffin, and water 10 inches deep on Railroad Street. Trained spotters reported 3 inches of rain in 1 hour in Tiffin.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Torrential rain also reported.
May 2018HailTiffin-A public report was received of penny sized hail.
July 2017HailTiffin-Pictures of hail the size of quarters received via the KCRG Facebook page.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindTiffin-The Emergency Manager for Johnson County reported a wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph on Interstate 80 west of Coraville near Tiffin.
April 2010HailTiffin-Quarter sized hail fell about 1 mile west of Tiffin, IA at 541 pm April 5.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Wind gusts were estimated to be 80 mph 1 mile west of Tiffin, IA around 537 pm June 23.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindTiffin-Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down some trees on Ireland and James Ave. Time estimated.
June 2007Flash FloodTiffin-Many streets were under water.
April 2006Funnel CloudTiffin-Public report of a funnel cloud or possible tornado on the ground southwest of the Tiffin rest area on I-80.
June 2006Funnel CloudTiffin-along I-380
April 2001Tornado (F0)Tiffin-Law enforcement reported a brief tornado touchdown in Tiffin. No damage resulted from the F0 tornado, and there were no injuries.
May 2001Funnel CloudTiffin-Reported by public.
April 2025HailTiffin-no account filed
October 2024HailTiffin-no account filed
October 2024HailTiffin-no account filed
October 2024HailTiffin-no account filed
April 2024HailTiffin-no account filed
April 2024HailTiffin-no account filed
July 2020HailTiffin-no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindTiffin-no account filed
April 2013HailTiffin-no account filed
April 2006Funnel CloudTiffin-no account filed
April 2002HailTiffin-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudTiffin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Western Hills Mobine Estates1.7 miles17
Oakdale3.2 miles19
Vernon3.5 miles19
North Liberty4.6 miles19
Green Castle (historical)4.7 miles14
Coralville4.8 miles19
Cosgrove5.8 miles17
University Heights6.6 miles19

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 TiffinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2247797The 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 462241. 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.