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Wallingford, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in High Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51365. The Survey maps it on the Wallingford quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Wallingford within Emmet County

On record in Wallingford

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Wallingford fell from 197 to 165 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
2010197
2020165-32 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wallingford between 2006 and 2020, burning about 374 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3

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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources260TH ST/270TH ST. TWELVE MILE LAKE TOWNSHIP, IA
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources430TH AVE BY 260TH ST., HIGH LAKE, IA
18 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wallingford: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Egeland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Emmet County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wallingford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallingford in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Flash FloodWallingford$500,000Highway 4 was closed with flooding in Wallingford serious enough that evacuations were taking place. Railroad tracks also sustained damage in town.
July 2011Flash FloodWallingford$100,000Several secondary roads flash flooded in Wallingford. Three to four inches of rain fell between Wallingford and Graettinger.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWallingford$50,000Grain bin down and blown into ditch.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWallingford$50,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWallingford$10,000no account filed
June 2012HailWallingford$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailWallingford$5,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWallingford$3,000A two foot diameter tree was blown over. An small old garage sustained minor structural damage.
August 2005HailWallingford$3,000no account filed
April 2001HailWallingford$3,000no account filed
July 2005HailWallingford$2,000no account filed
July 2005HailWallingford$2,000no account filed
July 2002HailWallingford$2,000no account filed
July 2002HailWallingford$2,000no account filed
June 2024FloodWallingford-IA-4 northbound, Between County Road B14 and IA 9 (1 mile north of the Wallingford area). The road is blocked because of flooding.
June 2010Heavy RainWallingford-Total rainfall just under 3 inches in the last 90 minutes.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Wallingford-Brief touchdown in a field east of Wallingford.
June 2013Funnel CloudWallingford-no account filed
July 2009HailWallingford-no account filed
July 2009HailWallingford-no account filed
July 2002HailWallingford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Raleigh4.3 miles7
Estherville6.0 miles7
Gruver6.9 miles7
Bubona (historical)7.1 miles7
Hoprig9.8 miles7
Maple Hill10.2 miles7
Huntington11.9 miles7
Gridley12.9 miles7

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 WallingfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1949294The 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 462622. 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.