BlockUte, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51060. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ute quadrangle. 338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUte fell from 374 to 338 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 | 374 | |
| 2020 | 338 | -36 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Ute quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ute in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Ute | $120,000 | Two homes sustained moderate to major damage, 3 grain bins and other outbuildings destroyed. Several vehicles were carried some distance. Large tree uprooted. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ute | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Ute | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Ute | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Ute | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ute | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ute | - | Law enforcement report of trees blown down. Winds gusted to an estimated 90 mph. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Ute | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail cover the ground in Ute. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Ute | - | Heavy rain and snowmelt caused the Soldier River to start flooding. IA 141 closed in both directions. County road L32, 1 mile west of the Ute area, and county road L61 near Ute also closed. Flood damage totals for the county are in the Maple Creek flooding entry below. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ute | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and power lines near Ute. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ute | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph flattened corn in fields. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Ute | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Ute | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Ute | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Ute | - | 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 Ute | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2558020 | 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 462506. 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.
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.