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Cantril, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52542. The Survey maps it on the Cantril quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Cantril within Van Buren County

On record in Cantril

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

Cantril grew from 222 to 224 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
2010222
2020224+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Storms near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cantril in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCantril$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a tree down onto a house in Cantril, IA at 800 pm CDT June 26.
June 2021Heavy RainCantril-Overnight rainfall total of 2.61 inches since 930 pm.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCantril-Iowa Department of Transportation road sensor measured this wind gust.
September 2015HailCantril-Dime sized hail was observed for 1 minute.
May 2014HailCantril-Half dollar sized hail fell in Cantril, IA at 559 pm CDT May 11.
April 2012HailCantril-Golf ball size hail was observed by a trained spotter southeast of Cantril.
April 2012HailCantril-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail northeast of Cantril.
June 2012HailCantril-Pea to penny sized hail fell for ten minutes just northwest of Cantril, IA at 436 pm CDT June 16.
June 2011HailCantril-Golf ball sized hail fell on the county line about 4 miles southeast of Cantril, IA at 1208 am CDT June 20. This report was also entered in for Missouri.
April 2006HailCantril-dime size hail
March 2024HailCantril-no account filed
June 2024HailCantril-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCantril-no account filed
June 2015HailCantril-no account filed
June 2010HailCantril-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Milton5.3 miles7
Lebanon5.7 miles7
Mount Sterling7.5 miles13
Pittsburg8.2 miles11
Keosauqua8.2 miles11
Pleasant Hill (historical)8.2 miles11
Mount Zion12.3 miles11
Kilbourn12.4 miles11

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 CantrilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q735618The 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 455155. 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.