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.
Population over time
2 figuresAlleman 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 432 | |
| 2020 | 423 | -9 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1911 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Flood | Alleman | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $200,000 | WHO TV radar was blown into a farm field and destroyed. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Alleman | $75,000 | Tornado 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $50,000 | Numerous large trees down with trees down on cars and shingles off of roofs. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $50,000 | Power lines down, trees down, and roads blocked by trees. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $15,000 | Public reported a destroyed farm shed, via social media. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported trees down. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Alleman | $10,000 | Trained spotter reports quarter size hail and 70 MPH winds. Extensive crop damage with corn stocks bent to the ground. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $10,000 | U.S. Highway 69 was closed due to power lines over the highway between Highway 210 and Highway 87. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Alleman | $10,000 | Water axle deep in Alleman Estates on the south side of Alleman. Report from WHO TV. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Alleman | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $5,000 | Extensive crop damage was reported with stocks flattened. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $5,000 | Power line were blown down along Highway 69 east of Alleman. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Alleman | $5,000 | Quarter size hail reportedly covering the ground southeast of Alleman. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Alleman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Alleman | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Alleman | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alleman | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleman | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Alleman | - | Public report of a funnel cloud north of Ankeny, relayed via social media. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Alleman | - | Trained spotter reported 3.40 inches of rain. |
| September 2017 | Heavy Rain | Alleman | - | Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Alleman | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.50 inches from today. Report came via social media. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Alleman | - | Intermittent touchdown in fields west of Alleman. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alleman | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crocker | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Polk City Junction | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Elkhart | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ankeny | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Polk City | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Corydon (historical) | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Enterprise | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Quilhart (historical) | 8.2 miles | 16 |
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 Alleman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972338 | 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 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.







