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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.

Whiting within Monona County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Whiting 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.

YearPeople Change
2010762
2020745-17 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2009

Regional 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 minor2

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
28 March 2009Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresWinnebago AgencyRUSTY CAGE
26 March 2014Misuse of fire by a minor120 acresWinnebago AgencyROSALIE #002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hargrave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monona County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2001Thunderstorm WindWhiting$5,000A thunderstorm wind gust estimated by the public at over 60 mph destroyed a barn near Whiting.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhiting$5,000no account filed
July 2024Funnel CloudWhiting-The office received a delayed report of a rope funnel cloud from the public.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWhiting-A Department of Highways station measured a 61 miles per hour wind gust.
June 2024HailWhiting-Golf ball sized hail was reported by a trained spotter along Interstate 29 west of Whiting.
June 2024HailWhiting-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 2022Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Public reported trees uprooted or snapped.
June 2019HailWhiting-The public reported 1 inch hail in Whiting.
July 2013HailWhiting-Thunderstorm winds accompanying the storm also downed some tree branches in the area.
May 2011Funnel CloudWhiting-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 2011HailWhiting-A probable gustnado was also reported with the hail.
April 2011HailWhiting-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 2011HailWhiting-Hail around baseball-size fell in the Whiting area which caused some vehicle damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWhiting-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 2006Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked off numerous shingles on a house south of Whiting.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph took the roof off of a mobile home near Whiting.
July 2003HailWhiting-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 2003Thunderstorm WindWhiting-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph northwest of Whiting. The winds caused some tree damage in the area.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Whiting-A brief touchdown of a tornado in open country in extreme northwest Monona county, reported by the public.
August 2001Tornado (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 1998Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Trees and power lines downed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Power lines downed.
June 1998Tornado (F2)Whiting-House destroyed.
April 2016HailWhiting-no account filed
May 2011HailWhiting-no account filed
August 2011HailWhiting-no account filed
May 2008HailWhiting-no account filed
September 2007HailWhiting-no account filed
May 2004HailWhiting-no account filed
July 2003HailWhiting-no account filed
June 2003HailWhiting-no account filed
July 2002HailWhiting-no account filed
April 2001HailWhiting-no account filed
October 2001HailWhiting-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Whiting-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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
Maple Landing (historical)4.2 miles9
Onawa7.5 miles9
Kennebec7.5 miles9
Albaton8.5 miles10
Ticonic10.8 miles8
Rodney11.7 miles8
Turin12.2 miles9
Castana13.3 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 WhitingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231952The 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.