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Yale, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50277. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Yale within Guthrie County

On record in Yale

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

Yale grew from 246 to 267 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
2010246
2020267+21 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Yale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 138 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources424 NORTH ST., IA
20 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictBAYS BRANCH
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 4 AND HWY 141, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yale: 2 past producers. 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
Spring Brook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yale in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindYale$75,000no account filed
May 2008HailYale$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailYale$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailYale$10,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindYale$10,000no account filed
June 2015HailYale$5,000no account filed
June 2015HailYale$5,000no account filed
April 2004HailYale$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailYale$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailYale$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindYale$4,000no account filed
May 2004HailYale$3,000no account filed
June 2015HailYale$2,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindYale-Emergency manager reported 65 mph wind gusts with pea sized hail and heavy rainfall.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindYale-Emergency manager reported 65 mph wind gusts with pea sized hail and heavy rainfall.
June 2015HailYale-no account filed
June 2015HailYale-no account filed
June 2015HailYale-no account filed
August 2004HailYale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Herndon4.8 miles10
Lake Panorama4.8 miles11
Jamaica5.4 miles10
Fanslers5.5 miles11
Panora5.9 miles11
Bagley6.1 miles10
Guthrie Center10.3 miles9
Monteith10.7 miles11

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 YaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928992The 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 463232. 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.