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Wyoming, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wyoming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52362. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wyoming West quadrangle. 523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Wyoming within Jones County

On record in Wyoming

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

Wyoming grew from 515 to 523 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
2010515
2020523+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Wyoming between 2007 and 2018, burning about 144 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8

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
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wyoming: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hutton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyoming QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyoming in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 flood. 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
July 2003HailWyoming$250,000no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodWyoming$50,000Bear creek flooded out X75 on the south edge of town; numerous basements flooded in Wyoming
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWyoming$50,000Numerous trees down on houses & vehicles. Small Outbuilding blown over.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWyoming$50,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWyoming$40,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a cattle shed, uprooted a large tree, overturned a feed bunk, and broke windows at a farm southeast of Wyoming. Nearby, a barn was destroyed covering the road with debris, a tree was toppled onto a house, and the roof of a shed was wrapped around a tree. Another barn was also destroyed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWyoming$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 65-70 mph blew down trees and numerous large tree limbs in Wyoming, IA around 638 pm CDT June 18. The local paper also reported that a power pole had been toppled by a tree during the same storm; at least one tree landed on a car; another tree fell onto a garage.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWyoming$25,000no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodWyoming$10,000Water over Highway 64 from Wyoming to Jct of Highway 38; many streets closed in Wyoming
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWyoming$10,000Tree landed on a garage.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWyoming$5,000Stop signs blown down with power poles downed.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWyoming$2,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWyoming-A public report of a pine tree snapped across the roadway and a flagpole broken.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWyoming-Estimated winds also brought down a 3 inch diameter tree branch.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWyoming-A public report of trees down in town.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWyoming-Powerlines downed throughout the town, with one downed on a mobile home.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Wyoming-An EF-1 tornado with peak winds estimated around 100 MPH touched down south of Wyoming and moved through the east side of town, damaging mainly trees with at least two trees snapped off. Twisted metal was lofted into the fire department parking lot.
July 2018HailWyoming-A trained spotter estimated hail stones up to the size of pennies and thunderstorm winds up to 40 MPH.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWyoming-The emergency manager reported partial trees were down. The time was estimated based on radar.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWyoming-The fire department estimated winds of 60 mph.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Wyoming-The Jones County Emergency Manager relayed a public report of a tornado west of Maquoketa. No damage was reported.
May 2011HailWyoming-Half dollar sized hail fell in Wyoming, IA at 435 pm CDT May 22.
August 2011Heavy RainWyoming-This is storm total rainfall.
June 2008Flash FloodWyoming-Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding of Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek in Wyoming, IA during the evening of June 8 and early morning of June 9. Some sand bagging efforts were required to protect some properties in Wyoming, IA.
July 2008HailWyoming-Penny to nickel-sized hail fell about 5 miles east of Wyoming, IA at 6:15 pm July 29.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWyoming-Extensive tree damage occurred along the Highway 64 corridor from Wyoming to Monmouth. In Wyoming, a large willow tree was uprooted and a cedar tree snapped about 10 ft above the ground along with other widespread branch and tree damage.|
June 2006HailWyoming-mainly pea with a few dime size stones
June 2002Flash FloodWyoming-Bear Creek near Highway 64 out of it's banks with water over the road.
July 2002FloodWyoming-Little Bear Creek overflowed its banks and flooded portions of town. Rainfall amounts of 5 to 6 inches were reported in Martelle and from Olin to Wyoming .
August 2002FloodWyoming-Torrential rain forced Little Bear Creek out of it's banks. The Creek, for a while, threatened a local supermarket, but never entered the store. A report of 5 inches of rain in 45 minutes was received between Wyoming and Onslow. Firefighters and homeowners sandbagged a few homes where basements were flooded.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWyoming-no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWyoming-no account filed
May 2016HailWyoming-no account filed
August 2011Heavy RainWyoming-no account filed
September 2002FloodWyoming-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWyoming-no account filed
September 2002HailWyoming-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWyoming-no account filed
September 2002HailWyoming-no account filed
April 2002HailWyoming-no account filed
April 2002HailWyoming-no account filed
April 2002Funnel CloudWyoming-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWyoming-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Onslow3.3 miles15
Hale4.2 miles15
Center Junction5.8 miles15
Oxford Junction5.9 miles13
Johnson (historical)6.4 miles15
Oxford Mills6.6 miles13
Olin8.3 miles12
Edinburg8.4 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 WyomingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232052The 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 463225. 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.