Whiting, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51063. The Survey maps it on the Sloan quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
On record in Whiting
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
- Garretson Outlet Bridgelisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresWhiting fell from 762 to 745 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 | 762 | |
| 2020 | 745 | -17 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Sloan quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Whiting between 2009 and 2014, burning about 123 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | RUSTY CAGE |
| 26 March 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 120 acres | Winnebago Agency | ROSALIE #002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whiting: 1 past producer. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hargrave Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whiting in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | $5,000 | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated by the public at over 60 mph destroyed a barn near Whiting. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Whiting | - | The office received a delayed report of a rope funnel cloud from the public. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | A Department of Highways station measured a 61 miles per hour wind gust. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Whiting | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported by a trained spotter along Interstate 29 west of Whiting. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Whiting | - | The office received a photo of significant damage to siding and windows on a home in Whiting, Iowa. This was accompanied by significant car damage and tree damage in the surrounding area. Hail was estimated to have ranged from golf ball to baseball sized. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Public reported trees uprooted or snapped. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Whiting | - | The public reported 1 inch hail in Whiting. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Whiting | - | Thunderstorm winds accompanying the storm also downed some tree branches in the area. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Whiting | - | A supercell thunderstorm that produced very large hail in the area also produced a brief funnel cloud that dropped from a rotating wall cloud. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Whiting | - | A probable gustnado was also reported with the hail. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Whiting | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell for several minutes in the Whiting area. The hail was from the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a EF3 tornado a brief time later in the Mapleton area. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Whiting | - | Hail around baseball-size fell in the Whiting area which caused some vehicle damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused considerable tree damage in the Whiting area which damaged a few buildings. The winds also broke at least one center pivot in the area. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked off numerous shingles on a house south of Whiting. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph took the roof off of a mobile home near Whiting. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Whiting | - | Hail between 3/4 of an inch and 1.5 inches was reported across northern Monona county to the north and northeast of Whiting. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph northwest of Whiting. The winds caused some tree damage in the area. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Whiting | - | A brief touchdown of a tornado in open country in extreme northwest Monona county, reported by the public. |
| August 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Whiting | - | This tornado touched down east of Macy, Nebraska, on the Iowa side of the Missouri River. This was the second tornado producing supercell to track across Monona county this night, touching down in open country with no apparent damage. The tornado was first reported by law enforcement and was also caught on film by a tv meteorologist. Initially the location was reported as Macy, Nebraska, but after further radar reviews, along with accounts from storm chasers at the scene, it was determined the tornado touched down west of Whiting, Iowa, or several miles east of Macy. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Trees and power lines downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whiting | - | Power lines downed. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Whiting | - | House destroyed. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Whiting | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Whiting | - | 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 Whiting | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231952 | 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 463007. 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.




