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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.

Udell within Appanoose County

Population over time

2 figures

Udell 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.

YearPeople Change
201047
202028-19 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

13 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources18142 T61 UNIONVILLE, IA, IA
7 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources20492 495TH ST., IA
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindUdell1 hurtA woman was injured by flying debris.
August 2007Flash FloodUdell$100,000Old Highway 5 just west of Moravia was reported under four feet of water.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindUdell$50,000no account filed
September 2001HailUdell$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindUdell$10,000Trained spotter reported a 12-15 inch diameter tree uprooted.
September 2001Tornado (F1)Udell$5,000Tornado touched down in open country, causing little damage.
June 2011HailUdell$1,000no account filed
October 2018Heavy RainUdell-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2 inches from 6 am to 1030 pm local time.
June 2015HailUdell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Unionville3.6 miles7
Hiattsville4.8 miles9
Orleans5.9 miles7
Forbush7.2 miles9
Darbyville7.4 miles9
Moulton7.4 miles7
Centerville7.7 miles11
Rathbun7.9 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 UdellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q279857The 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.