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Bouton, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50039. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Bouton within Dallas County

On record in Bouton

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

Bouton fell from 129 to 127 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
2010129
2020127-2 (-2%)

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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bouton between 2006 and 2012, burning about 54 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/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 May 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources872 300TH ST., WOODWARD, IA, IOWA
15 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources141ST & WILLIS AVE, PERRY, IOWA
2 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources26122 141ST ST., IOWA
29 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources330TH ST., 1300 BLOCK, WOODWARD, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bouton: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Croft PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bouton in 17 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flood, 1 flash 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
August 2010FloodBouton$100,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBouton$50,000Multiple large trees over 12 inches in diameter were blown down throughout town.
March 2010FloodBouton$25,000no account filed
June 2010FloodBouton$25,000no account filed
June 2009HailBouton$20,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBouton$10,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBouton$10,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBouton$3,000no account filed
June 2009HailBouton$1,000no account filed
April 2022Flash FloodBouton-Emergency manager relayed a report from a trained spotter of localized street flooding in Woodward and Bouton with possible power outages.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBouton-Emergency manager reported large tree branches down throughout Bouton. Time estimated via radar.
June 2015HailBouton-Nickel to quarter size hail reported.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBouton-Well defined miso-vortex that produced crop damage near Bouton. Damage was found and documented using high resolution satellite imagery.
July 2011HailBouton-Wind gusting 35 to 40 MPH as well.
June 2024Funnel CloudBouton-no account filed
June 2010FloodBouton-no account filed
June 2008HailBouton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Gardiner2.1 miles12
Perry Yard4.2 miles12
Woodward4.6 miles12
Perry5.3 miles12
Moran6.1 miles12
Xenia6.2 miles12
Minburn6.6 miles12
Gibbsville10.4 miles13

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 BoutonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1897436The 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 454771. 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.