Iola, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77861. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIola fell from 401 to 311 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 401 | |
| 2020 | 311 | -90 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Iola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Iola quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
136 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Iola between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,631 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were 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 burning | 69 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4533 CR 123 |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.3 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRIMES 15:42 |
| 29 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 27 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 25 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4467 CR 167 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iola in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $50,000 | Barn and nearby building destroyed. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Iola | $17,000 | Highway 244 closed due to high water. Flood water over several county-wide roads including, but not limited to, FM 2620 and portions of Highway 90. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $10,000 | Trees down along FM 1696. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Iola | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $3,000 | Sheriff's office reported trees down. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Iola | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $2,000 | Numerous trees were reported down across the county. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in several downed trees in the Iola area. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Iola | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Iola | - | Various rural roads were closed due to flooding. These roads included SH 90 and FM 1452. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Iola | - | Water was reported over the road on FM 244 between Iola and Keith. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Iola | - | Penny sized hail reported in the town of Iola. |
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Iola | - | County-wide flooding from Iola to Navasota and eastward around Anderson. Flooded roads included FM 1774 two miles south of Anderson, FM 3094 at the intersection of Victoria and Coleman Hill, and FM 244 between Iola and Carlos. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bedias | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Keith | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Singleton | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Cotton | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Carlos | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Ferguson Crossing | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Roans Prairie | 14.7 miles | 10 |
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 Iola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972383 | The 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 1374229. 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.



