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.
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
Wickfield Round Barnlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresCantril 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 224 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Cantril quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
15 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cantril | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a tree down onto a house in Cantril, IA at 800 pm CDT June 26. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Cantril | - | Overnight rainfall total of 2.61 inches since 930 pm. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cantril | - | Iowa Department of Transportation road sensor measured this wind gust. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Cantril | - | Dime sized hail was observed for 1 minute. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Cantril | - | Half dollar sized hail fell in Cantril, IA at 559 pm CDT May 11. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Cantril | - | Golf ball size hail was observed by a trained spotter southeast of Cantril. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Cantril | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail northeast of Cantril. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Cantril | - | Pea to penny sized hail fell for ten minutes just northwest of Cantril, IA at 436 pm CDT June 16. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Cantril | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Cantril | - | dime size hail |
| March 2024 | Hail | Cantril | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Cantril | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cantril | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Cantril | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Cantril | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lebanon | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Mount Sterling | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Pittsburg | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Keosauqua | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Hill (historical) | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion | 12.3 miles | 11 | |
| Kilbourn | 12.4 miles | 11 |
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 Cantril | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q735618 | 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 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.




