Truro, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50257. The Survey maps it on the Truro quadrangle. 509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTruro grew from 485 to 509 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 | 485 | |
| 2020 | 509 | +24 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Truro quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Truro between 2006 and 2017, burning about 744 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 320 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | DONAR |
| 20 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 346 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Truro: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
25 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truro in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Hail | Truro | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Truro | $25,000 | This tornado affected several farmsteads along its path. Damage was mostly to trees and storage silos, with damage to outbuildings caused by flying debris from these sources. The tornado path became intermittent for the latter portion of its life as it tracked northward. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Truro | $25,000 | Street flooding with a foot of water flowing over Emerson Street. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Truro | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Truro | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Truro | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Truro | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Truro | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Truro | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Truro | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truro | $3,000 | Winds were estimated to be gusting to 60 MPH. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Truro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Truro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Truro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Truro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truro | $2,000 | Estimated, also very heavy rainfall. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truro | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truro | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Truro | - | Public reported nickel sized hail. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Truro | - | Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 4.25 inches. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Truro | - | Water reported over Valley View Trail just north of Truro. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Truro | - | Up to a foot of water over County Road G68. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Truro | - | Street flooding was reported in Truro. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Truro | - | 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.
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 Truro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2240045 | 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 463555. 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.






