Arispe, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sand Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50830. The Survey maps it on the Arispe quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
On record in Arispe
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
- Grand River Bridgelisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresArispe fell from 100 to 96 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 | 100 | |
| 2020 | 96 | -4 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Arispe quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Arispe between 2007 and 2015, burning about 278 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arispe in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 10 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Hail | Arispe | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Arispe | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Arispe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arispe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Arispe | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Arispe | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Arispe | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arispe | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Arispe | - | Three inches of rainfall. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Arispe | - | Four inches of rain in the past 2 hours. |
| February 2014 | Hail | Arispe | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Arispe | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Arispe | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Arispe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon City | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Shepard (historical) | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Afton | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Afton Junction (historical) | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Talmage | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| East Creston | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Thayer | 10.4 miles | 11 | |
| Creston | 10.7 miles | 9 |
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 Arispe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1849047 | 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 454229. 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.




