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Yetter, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Elm Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51433. The Survey maps it on the Yetter quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Yetter within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Yetter fell from 34 to 19 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
201034
202019-15 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Yetter between 2011 and 2019, burning about 20 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 April 2019Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesJANA REC. AREA WMA (0.2 AC), MARK HOSTENG FARMS (5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Yetter: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Hosteng Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kreft PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yetter in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2007Flash FloodYetter$75,000Six inches of water was reported in basements due to heavy rain. Numerous basements were flooded.
June 2014HailYetter$25,000no account filed
August 2009HailYetter$25,000no account filed
December 2015FloodYetter$20,000Flooding was reported along the North Raccoon River from near Sac City to northwest of Lanesboro.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindYetter$10,000Large healthy Maple trees were blown down in the yard. They were roughly 3 feet in diameter.
August 2009HailYetter$10,000Hail broke out 2 windows of a house.
August 2007Flash FloodYetter$10,000Heavy rainfall resulted in water running over highways with ditches full.
August 2010HailYetter$5,000Trained spotter reported half dollar to possibly golf gall size hail.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindYetter$2,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindYetter$1,000Three inch diameter branches broken.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindYetter$1,000no account filed
June 2020Funnel CloudYetter-Two funnel clouds spotted with storms northwest of Lake City, Iowa.
April 2017HailYetter-Trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail covering the ground along with winds to around 50 mph.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindYetter-Trained spotter reported tree damage to an old maple tree, which was partially rotted. Winds estimated at over 50 mph. Torrential rainfall also present at time of rainfall.
July 2011HailYetter-A trained spotter reported dime to nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Lake City6.8 miles8
Sherwood7.0 miles8
Lavinia8.2 miles8
Rockwell City12.5 miles8
Jolley13.1 miles8
Stimsons (historical)13.3 miles8
Wightman13.8 miles8
Rands14.2 miles8

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 YetterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232840The 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 463245. 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.