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Alleman, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50007. It stands on Alleman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhart quadrangle. 423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Alleman within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Alleman fell from 432 to 423 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
2010432
2020423-9 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Alleman between 2006 and 2018, burning about 13 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
Debris and open burning4

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
5 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

30 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alleman in 30 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
April 2007FloodAlleman$500,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlleman$200,000WHO TV radar was blown into a farm field and destroyed.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Alleman$75,000Tornado exhibited an intermittent track as it moved across northern Polk County into Story County. Peak damage included garage and a living room roof removed from a manufactured home. Tornado continued into Story County.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAlleman$50,000Numerous large trees down with trees down on cars and shingles off of roofs.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAlleman$50,000Power lines down, trees down, and roads blocked by trees.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAlleman$50,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAlleman$15,000Public reported a destroyed farm shed, via social media.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindAlleman$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees down.
July 2013HailAlleman$10,000Trained spotter reports quarter size hail and 70 MPH winds. Extensive crop damage with corn stocks bent to the ground.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAlleman$10,000U.S. Highway 69 was closed due to power lines over the highway between Highway 210 and Highway 87.
July 2008FloodAlleman$10,000Water axle deep in Alleman Estates on the south side of Alleman. Report from WHO TV.
July 2008HailAlleman$10,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAlleman$5,000Extensive crop damage was reported with stocks flattened.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAlleman$5,000Power line were blown down along Highway 69 east of Alleman.
May 2010HailAlleman$5,000Quarter size hail reportedly covering the ground southeast of Alleman.
July 2008HailAlleman$5,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindAlleman$5,000no account filed
September 2005HailAlleman$3,000no account filed
April 2002HailAlleman$3,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindAlleman$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailAlleman$2,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAlleman$2,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAlleman$2,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAlleman$1,000no account filed
June 2021Funnel CloudAlleman-Public report of a funnel cloud north of Ankeny, relayed via social media.
July 2021Heavy RainAlleman-Trained spotter reported 3.40 inches of rain.
September 2017Heavy RainAlleman-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches.
August 2015Heavy RainAlleman-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.50 inches from today. Report came via social media.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Alleman-Intermittent touchdown in fields west of Alleman.
June 2001HailAlleman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Crocker4.4 miles12
Polk City Junction4.7 miles12
Elkhart5.1 miles11
Ankeny6.2 miles16
Polk City6.3 miles12
Corydon (historical)6.4 miles17
Enterprise7.5 miles16
Quilhart (historical)8.2 miles16

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 AllemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972338The 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 454132. 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.