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Traer, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50675. It stands on Little Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Traer quadrangle. 1,583 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Traer within Tama County

On record in Traer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Traer fell from 1,703 to 1,583 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
20101,703
20201,583-120 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Traer between 2011 and 2017, burning about 5 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources370 AVE 180 ST, IA
22 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tama County

Storms near this place

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traer in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 heavy rain, 9 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
June 2014Tornado (EF2)Traer$150,000Damage was done to homes in the Traer area.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTraer$75,000no account filed
April 2006HailTraer$25,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTraer$20,000Law enforcement reported power lines blown down onto a semi trailer. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTraer$20,000Reports of several trees down in Traer with roof damage to a home on the south side of town.
April 2006HailTraer$20,000no account filed
April 2006HailTraer$15,000no account filed
May 2004HailTraer$15,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTraer$15,000no account filed
September 2010LightningTraer$10,000no account filed
April 2006HailTraer$10,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindTraer$10,000no account filed
April 1996HailTraer$10,000no account filed
May 2010HailTraer$5,000A trained spotter reported quarter size hail covering the road at the intersection of Highways 96 and 63 about 7 miles west of Traer.
June 2011HailTraer$5,000no account filed
April 2006HailTraer$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailTraer$5,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTraer$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailTraer$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailTraer$3,000no account filed
August 2000HailTraer$2,000no account filed
May 1996HailTraer$2,000no account filed
May 2001Tornado (F0)Traer$1,000Brief touchdown in open country.
May 2000HailTraer$1,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindTraer$1,000no account filed
July 1995HailTraer$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTraer-Report of multiple tree limbs down.
May 2024Flash FloodTraer-P Ave closed from 145th to 155th St due to flooding. Reported by Tama County Engineer via social media.
May 2024Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer reported 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.09 inches.
June 2021Funnel CloudTraer-Public report of funnel cloud via social media picture.
June 2020Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer recorded 2.57 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours.
June 2020Heavy RainTraer-Trained spotter has measured around 4 inches of rain in the last 24 hours with 7.75 inches measured since Friday. Reported flooding in the wolf creek area.
June 2020FloodTraer-The department of transportation relayed a report from the Tama county sheriff's office that there was flooding on US 63 south from just north of Traer by the golf course near Wolf Creek. Water was over the southbound lane roughly to the centerline.
June 2020FloodTraer-Iowa Department of Transportation and the Tama county sheriff confirm both lanes of US 63 are covered in water as confirmed by multiple 911 calls.
August 2020HailTraer-Trained spotter reported mostly dime sized hail with a few stones up to quarter sized, accompanied by estimated 40 mph winds.
June 2018HailTraer-This is a delayed report. Public reported larger than quarter sized hail in Traer via multiple reports on social media including from KWWL, KCCI, KCRG.
August 2018Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.13 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainTraer-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 6.57 inches. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. Actual estimated start time of 1120pm CST on August 31st.
September 2018Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 6.57 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
September 2018Flash FloodTraer-County Sheriff's Office reported that the bridge on M Ave over Wolf Creek was under water due to the heavy rains overnight. Unknown beginning time of water over the bridge.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindTraer-Trained spotter reported one medium sized tree branch down in their backyard.
April 2017Heavy RainTraer-Coop report of 1.35 inches over the past 24 hours and 1.70 inches over the past 48 hours.
June 2016Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.25 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 1.97 inches over the last 24 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainTraer-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.95 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
May 2003HailTraer-no account filed
August 1997HailTraer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tama 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
West Union (historical)1.0 miles9
Buckingham (historical)1.4 miles9
Buckingham4.8 miles10
Dinsdale6.2 miles9
Clutier8.6 miles9
Dysart8.6 miles9
Mooreville (historical)9.5 miles9
Lincoln12.9 miles9

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 TraerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233271The 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 462294. 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.