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Yorktown, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Tarkio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51656. The Survey maps it on the Coin quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Yorktown within Page County

Population over time

2 figures

Yorktown fell from 85 to 60 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
201085
202060-25 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Yorktown between 2006 and 2020, burning about 44 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
14 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Page County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorktown in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 3 hail, 3 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindYorktown-Several sheds had lost metal roof panels from damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindYorktown-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed a couple of 6 inch in diameter tree limbs.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindYorktown-A spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts were around 60 mph in the Yorktown area.
September 2010HailYorktown-no account filed
May 2004HailYorktown-no account filed
May 2003HailYorktown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Page 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
Tarkio City (historical)2.0 miles12
Page Center2.1 miles12
Norwich5.3 miles10
Clarinda6.3 miles12
Coin6.7 miles12
Bingham7.0 miles10
College Springs8.1 miles12
Bethesda8.2 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 YorktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925281The 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 463248. 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.

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.