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Allison, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in West Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50602. The Survey maps it on the Allison quadrangle. 966 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Allison within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Allison fell from 1,029 to 966 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
20101,029
2020966-63 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Allison in 2011, burning about 7 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/undetermined2

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
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources22553 180TH ST., IA
1 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources51260 HWY 14, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Allison: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oltmann QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allison in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
December 2001Thunderstorm WindAllison$75,000no account filed
June 2001HailAllison$20,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAllison$15,000Emergency manager reported trees and some powerlines down within the city of Allison. Time estimated from radar.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAllison$15,000no account filed
June 2008HailAllison$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailAllison$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAllison$10,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindAllison$5,000Public reported tree damage, with extent unknown at the time. Relayed by an NWS employee. Time radar estimated.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindAllison$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAllison$3,000Large portion of a tree down in Allison.
June 2001HailAllison$2,000no account filed
May 1999HailAllison$2,000no account filed
April 2009HailAllison$1,000no account filed
June 2006HailAllison$1,000no account filed
May 1999HailAllison$500no account filed
May 1999HailAllison$500no account filed
May 1999HailAllison$500no account filed
August 1993HailAllison$500no account filed
April 2024HailAllison-Hail reported along highway 14 just south of Allison.
July 2021HailAllison-Report via mping app.
September 2018Heavy RainAllison-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.00 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAllison-Emergency manager estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
September 2010HailAllison-Heavy rain occurred as well.
July 2009Heavy RainAllison-Rainfall of 3.02 inches. Twenty four hour total, but nearly all in past 3 hours.
September 2001HailAllison-no account filed
September 2001HailAllison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Pilot Rock3.2 miles9
Butler Center3.9 miles9
Wilmar4.9 miles9
Bristow6.1 miles10
Clarksville7.1 miles9
Coster7.1 miles9
Packard7.5 miles9
New Albion8.3 miles9

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 AllisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q281220The 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 454143. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.