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Camanche, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Camanche Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52730. It stands on Beaver Slough. The Survey maps it on the Camanche quadrangle. 4,570 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Camanche within Clinton County

On record in Camanche

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Camanche grew from 4,448 to 4,570 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
20104,448
20204,570+122 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Camanche between 2006 and 2020, burning about 120 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2017Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesREAR OF 2103 7TH AVE, CAMANCHE, IA
12 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Camanche: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Clinton QuarriesLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shaffton QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huizenga QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcmahon Quarry and Plant No. 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Second Avenue QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Acme AggregatesSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Albany-Cordova Plant #1 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Determan Sand and Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camanche in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning. 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
July 2003HailCamanche$100,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCamanche$50,000Power lines down
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCamanche$50,00018 inch limbs down & power out
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCamanche$20,000Significant tree limb damage with limbs and power lines down. Windows broken out at a business in town.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCamanche$8,000Trees and limbs downed throughout town.
May 1995HailCamanche$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCamanche$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCamanche$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCamanche$3,000A tree was blown down onto a car at the Royal Pines Village mobile home park. Time estimated.
June 2019FloodCamanche-The Mississippi River at Camanche Iowa began the month above its major flood stage of 20.5 feet and crested at 21.23 feet on June 1st. The river fell back below major flood stage on June 2nd around 3 AM.
June 2019FloodCamanche-The Wapsipinicon River at De Witt 4 South remained above major flood stage of 12.5 feet from the end of May through the early morning hours of June 4th.
October 2018FloodCamanche-An extended flood took place on the lower Wapsipinicon River October, 2018. Major flooding was ongoing at the De Witt (4 miles south) gage, from September at the start of the month of October and continued with only a short 1 day break on the 5th, all the way to October 21 at 1 AM when it fell below major flood stage of 12.5 feet. The river crested at 13.9 feet at 730 AM, October 7th.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCamanche-co-op observer reports estimated 52 knot (60 mph winds)
July 2006Heavy RainCamanche-from co-op observer; 1.17 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
July 2006HailCamanche-reported by co-op observer and law; dime size hail
September 1997LightningCamanche-Lightning strike caused minor damage to transformer and widespread power outages from Camanche to Clinton.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Chaney (historical)1.6 miles19
Clinton Stock Yards2.7 miles19
Shaffton4.6 miles19
Clinton5.3 miles19
Low Moor5.3 miles19
Folletts5.9 miles21
Lyons6.6 miles19
Elvira7.2 miles19

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 CamancheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q995020The 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 455096. 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.