Allerton, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50008. The Survey maps it on the Allerton quadrangle. 430 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
On record in Allerton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Nelson Round Barnlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresAllerton fell from 501 to 430 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 | 501 | |
| 2020 | 430 | -71 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Allerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Allerton between 2009 and 2019, burning about 488 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 86 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allerton in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 heavy rain, 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Allerton | $300,000 | This tornado formed southwest of Allerton and moved northeast snapping power poles along Idaho Road before clipping the southeast edge of Allerton. A manufactured house had its roof removed on the edge of town with the tornado snapping power poles and a back stop at a park on the east side of town. The tornado then remained in rural areas of central Wayne county with little damage noted. The circulation stayed just southeast of Corydon but did destroy a machine shed along Highway 2 east of town. The tornado continued northeast before dissipating north of Newton Road west of 180th Street. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Allerton | $100,000 | Four to 6 inches of water flowing over County Highway S26. Multiple gravel roads inundated. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Allerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allerton | $25,000 | Healthy tree split and fell onto a garage. Numerous other 4 to 6 inch branches broken off around Allerton. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Allerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Allerton | $5,000 | Nickel to half dollar size hail covered the ground in Allerton. |
| February 2007 | Flood | Allerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allerton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Allerton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Allerton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Allerton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | A 24 hour rain total of 2.29 inches. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.3 inches. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.19 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall total of 2.70 inches since about 2 am. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.57 inches. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.51 inches. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Rainfall of 4.25 inches since last night. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Rainfall amount of 6.55 inches was reported over the past 24 hours. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Allerton | - | Evening rainfall was reported as 5.20 inches. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Allerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Allerton | - | 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.
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 Allerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1922646 | 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 454140. 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.




