Jordan, Iowa
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Jordan is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Iowa, United States.{{cite gnis|457993|Jordan, Iowa}}
History
Jordan was historically called Midway and Harmon's Switch.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jX4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222 | title=History of Boone County, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=Pioneer Publishing Company | author=Goldthwait, Nathan Edward | year=1914 | pages=222}} The present name is after the Jordan River.{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA88|year=1908|page=88}} Jordan was not officially platted.{{cite web | url=http://www.boonecounty.iowa.gov/about-us/county-history | title=County History | publisher=Boone County | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612044810/http://www.boonecounty.iowa.gov/about-us/county-history | accessdate=24 March 2018| archive-date=2017-06-12 }} Jordan's population was 12 in 1902,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AzrWecxN1wC |title=Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition |date=1902 |publisher=J. R. Gray & Company |pages=203–207 |language=en}} and 26 in 1925.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqRRAQAAMAAJ |title=Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States, territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions |date=1925 |publisher=Rand McNally & Company |pages=190 |language=en}}
Jordan was hit by a massive tornado on June 13, 1976. The tornado was rated an F5 by the National Weather Service, and the National Centers for Environmental Information (then called National Climatic Data Center) indicated that the damage path of the tornado was roughly {{convert|880|yd|m}} or {{convert|1/2|mi|1|spell=in}} wide and {{convert|21|mi|km}} long. The tornado destroyed virtually every house and business building in the community, but all residents survived. The tornado was accompanied by an F-3 anticyclonic tornado two miles to the southeast. One unusual aspect of the F5 cyclonic tornado and F3 anticyclone tornado was the simultaneous right turn made by each.{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108<1626:TICATP>2.0.CO;2|issn = 1520-0493|year = 1980|volume = 108|page = 1626|title = The Iowa Cyclonic-Anticyclonic Tornado Pair and Its Parent Thunderstorm|last1 = Brown|first1 = John M.|last2 = Knupp|first2 = Kevin R.|journal = Monthly Weather Review|issue = 10|bibcode = 1980MWRv..108.1626B|doi-access = free}} Dr. Ted Fujita, the originator of the Fujita tornado intensity scale, said the tornado which hit Jordan was one of the most intense and destructive he had ever studied.[https://iowaweather.com/remembering-jordan-iowa-tornado-of-june-1976/ Tornado of 1976]
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Iowa
Category:Unincorporated communities in Boone County, Iowa
Category:Destroyed populated places
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