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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.

Truro within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Truro 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.

YearPeople Change
2010485
2020509+24 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 2006

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined320 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesDONAR
20 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2015Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined346 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001HailTruro$50,000no account filed
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Truro$25,000This 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 2008Flash FloodTruro$25,000Street flooding with a foot of water flowing over Emerson Street.
May 2001HailTruro$20,000no account filed
June 2009HailTruro$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailTruro$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailTruro$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailTruro$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailTruro$5,000no account filed
July 2001HailTruro$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTruro$3,000Winds were estimated to be gusting to 60 MPH.
June 2008HailTruro$3,000no account filed
June 2008HailTruro$3,000no account filed
June 2004HailTruro$3,000no account filed
June 2002HailTruro$3,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTruro$3,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTruro$2,000Estimated, also very heavy rainfall.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTruro$2,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTruro$1,000no account filed
June 2018HailTruro-Public reported nickel sized hail.
August 2014Heavy RainTruro-Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 4.25 inches.
June 2009Heavy RainTruro-Water reported over Valley View Trail just north of Truro.
June 2009Heavy RainTruro-Up to a foot of water over County Road G68.
July 2008Flash FloodTruro-Street flooding was reported in Truro.
April 2024HailTruro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
East Peru4.4 miles9
Hanley5.4 miles9
Old Peru5.5 miles9
Saint Charles5.8 miles9
Barney8.8 miles11
Patterson9.7 miles9
Tileville10.7 miles9
Bevington10.8 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 TruroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2240045The 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.