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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.

Allerton within Wayne County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Allerton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010501
2020430-71 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

17 since 2009

Regional 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
15 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning86 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2017Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burning300 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF2)Allerton$300,000This 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 2010Flash FloodAllerton$100,000Four to 6 inches of water flowing over County Highway S26. Multiple gravel roads inundated.
June 2002HailAllerton$50,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAllerton$25,000Healthy tree split and fell onto a garage. Numerous other 4 to 6 inch branches broken off around Allerton.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllerton$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailAllerton$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailAllerton$5,000Nickel to half dollar size hail covered the ground in Allerton.
February 2007FloodAllerton$5,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllerton$5,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAllerton$2,000no account filed
March 2005HailAllerton$1,000no account filed
August 2005HailAllerton$1,000no account filed
May 2004HailAllerton$1,000no account filed
July 2021Heavy RainAllerton-A 24 hour rain total of 2.29 inches.
July 2020Heavy RainAllerton-A CoCoRaHS observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.3 inches.
September 2019Heavy RainAllerton-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.19 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2019Heavy RainAllerton-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2019Heavy RainAllerton-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainAllerton-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall total of 2.70 inches since about 2 am.
June 2014Heavy RainAllerton-Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.57 inches.
October 2013Heavy RainAllerton-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.51 inches.
July 2010Heavy RainAllerton-Rainfall of 4.25 inches since last night.
August 2009Heavy RainAllerton-Rainfall amount of 6.55 inches was reported over the past 24 hours.
July 2008Heavy RainAllerton-Evening rainfall was reported as 5.20 inches.
September 2014HailAllerton-no account filed
June 2013HailAllerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Hodge2.7 miles7
Corydon4.3 miles12
Harvard5.2 miles7
Peoria5.3 miles12
Saxon5.8 miles12
Clio6.7 miles7
Clinton Center (historical)6.8 miles7
Sewal7.1 miles7

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 AllertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922646The 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.