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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.

Iola within Grimes County

Population over time

2 figures

Iola 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.

YearPeople Change
2010401
2020311-90 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

136 since 1993

Regional 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4533 CR 123
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIMES 15:42
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
25 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4467 CR 167

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Thunderstorm WindIola$50,000Barn and nearby building destroyed.
October 2006Flash FloodIola$17,000Highway 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 2001Thunderstorm WindIola$10,000Trees down along FM 1696.
May 1994HailIola$5,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindIola$3,000Sheriff's office reported trees down.
April 2005HailIola$3,000no account filed
February 2011Thunderstorm WindIola$2,000Numerous trees were reported down across the county.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindIola-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in several downed trees in the Iola area.
May 2019HailIola-Quarter sized hail was observed.
October 2018Flash FloodIola-Various rural roads were closed due to flooding. These roads included SH 90 and FM 1452.
June 2010Flash FloodIola-Water was reported over the road on FM 244 between Iola and Keith.
April 2008HailIola-Penny sized hail reported in the town of Iola.
January 2007Flash FloodIola-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.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Cross3.0 miles10
Bedias6.7 miles10
Keith8.9 miles8
Singleton10.3 miles11
Cotton10.4 miles10
Carlos12.2 miles10
Ferguson Crossing12.7 miles9
Roans Prairie14.7 miles10

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 IolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972383The 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.