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Williams, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50271. The Survey maps it on the Williams quadrangle. 307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.

Williams within Hamilton County

On record in Williams

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

Williams fell from 344 to 307 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
2010344
2020307-37 (-11%)

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.

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliams$100,000A hog containment building was destroyed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWilliams$35,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliams$30,000Grain bin on the road and power lines down. Possible tornado damage.
May 2000HailWilliams$25,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWilliams$25,000no account filed
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Williams$10,000Tornado formed 4 miles southeast of Williams and moved initially north but made a sweeping right turn to the east southeast before leaving the county. An outbuilding lost part of its roof with crop damage occurring along the path. The tornado then entered Hardin county. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Williams$10,000Brief touchdown south of the town of Williams.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$10,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindWilliams$5,000no account filed
April 2007HailWilliams$5,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWilliams$5,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliams$5,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliams$3,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWilliams$3,000no account filed
September 2001HailWilliams$2,000no account filed
May 2000HailWilliams$2,000no account filed
May 2016HailWilliams$1,000Trained spotter reported hail up to quarter size blanketed on the ground, with some damage to leaves and vegetation. Delayed report and time estimated from radar.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000no account filed
May 2007HailWilliams$1,000no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Williams-A brief tornado developed in far northern Hamilton County and travelled a short distance north before leaving the county. No damage indicators were impacted in Hamilton County, hence the EFU rating. This tornado moved into Wright county.
August 2018HailWilliams-Public reported penny sized hail. This is a delayed report.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Williams-This brief and narrow tornado formed a little over 3 miles southeast of Williams and moved east southeast. It remained in open farmland producing some crop damage. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Williams-There was a brief tornado touchdown with no damage reported.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Wind gust was measured at an RWIS location.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWilliams-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudWilliams-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudWilliams-no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliams-no account filed
September 2001HailWilliams-no account filed
September 2001HailWilliams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Blairsburg5.2 miles9
Remicker (historical)8.3 miles9
Stonega9.0 miles9
Kamrar11.8 miles9
Ellsworth12.2 miles9
Jewell13.5 miles9
Webster City14.4 miles9
Randall17.5 miles15

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 WilliamsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012283The 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 463052. 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.