Voorhies, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50643. The Survey maps it on the Buckingham quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Voorhies within Black Hawk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Buckingham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Voorhies: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mohler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Voorhies in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 2008	Flood	Voorhies	$250,000	The Black Hawk County Sheriff reported the city of Hudson was inundated with water from Black Hawk Creek. Sandbagging was underway, but failed to hold back the water. A local emergency was declared.
March 2020	Tornado (EFU)	Voorhies	-	Picture of tornado near Voorhies was received from trained spotter. The path of the tornado was later discovered in high resolution satellite imagery and adjusted accordingly. The tornado remained in rural farm fields although passed very close to a house near the intersection of State Highway 175 and Highway 63, although no damage was reported. With no damage occurring to any damage indicators, the tornado was rated an EFU.
October 2020	Hail	Voorhies	-	KWWL relayed a public report and picture of roughly quarter sized hail near Voorhies.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Voorhies	-	Public reported anemometer measured wind gust of 58 kts. Reported via social media.

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blessing	2.2 miles	10
Hicks	3.4 miles	9
Hudson	5.1 miles	10
Eagle Center	6.6 miles	10
Cedar Falls Junction	8.3 miles	10
Orange	9.1 miles	11
Louise	9.9 miles	10
Cedar Knoll Park	12.0 miles	11

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 Voorhies	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16902780	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 462593. 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.

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.