Udell, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Udell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52593. The Survey maps it on the Unionville quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUdell fell from 47 to 28 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 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 28 | -19 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Unionville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Udell between 2006 and 2017, burning about 244 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 18142 T61 UNIONVILLE, IA, IA |
| 7 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 20492 495TH ST., IA |
| 26 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 March 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Udell in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Udell | 1 hurt | A woman was injured by flying debris. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Udell | $100,000 | Old Highway 5 just west of Moravia was reported under four feet of water. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Udell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Udell | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Udell | $10,000 | Trained spotter reported a 12-15 inch diameter tree uprooted. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Udell | $5,000 | Tornado touched down in open country, causing little damage. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Udell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2018 | Heavy Rain | Udell | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2 inches from 6 am to 1030 pm local time. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Udell | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unionville | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Hiattsville | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Orleans | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Forbush | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Darbyville | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Moulton | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Centerville | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Rathbun | 7.9 miles | 9 |
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 Udell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q279857 | 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 462413. 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.




