Blanchard, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51630. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Blanchard within Page County

Population over time

2 figures

Blanchard fell from 38 to 29 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	38
2020	29	-9 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1940 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Blanchard quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanchard in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanchard	$10,000	Damage to a grain bin
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanchard	-	A healthy 15 year old maple tree was blown down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanchard	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts tore the roof off of a horse barn.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanchard	-	The public estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph downed a 6 inch diameter tree limb near Blanchard. The wind was accompanied by dime-size hail.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Blanchard	-	Rainfall of a little under 2.75 inches in the Blanchard area was recorded this night. The heavy rain in southwest Iowa helped produce flooding along the Nishnabotna and Nodaway Rivers.
June 2008	Hail	Blanchard	-	Hail up to nickel-size was reported near Blanchard.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanchard	-	A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts approaching 60 mph in Blanchard.
August 2015	Hail	Blanchard	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Blanchard	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Blanchard	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Blanchard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Page 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Willsburg (historical)	2.2 miles	10
Northboro	4.2 miles	10
Coin	5.2 miles	12
College Springs	6.0 miles	12
Braddyville	10.2 miles	12
Page Center	10.4 miles	12
Tarkio City (historical)	10.7 miles	12
Yorktown	11.2 miles	12

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 Blanchard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2239877	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 454681. 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.

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.