BlockEast Peru, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50222. It stands on North Fork Clanton Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Peru quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.
On record in East Peru
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
- William Ogburn Houselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresEast Peru fell from 125 to 115 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 | 125 | |
| 2020 | 115 | -10 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS East Peru quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Peru: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peru Myers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Peru Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Peru in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | East Peru | $100,000 | Homes were beginning to flood. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | East Peru | $10,000 | Clanton creek south of East Peru was flooding roads 3 feet deep. |
| June 2009 | Hail | East Peru | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | East Peru | $5,000 | Flash flooding was reported at Clanton Creek. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Peru | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | East Peru | - | Emergency management reported a brief tornado east of Highway 169 in rural Madison County. This tornado did not impact and damage indicators, hence the EFU rating. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | East Peru | - | This short-lived tornado damaged a few trees along its path. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | East Peru | - | Rainfall of 2.60 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| May 2014 | Hail | East Peru | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | East Peru | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Peru | 1.2 miles | 9 | |
| Truro | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Barney | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hanley | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Buffalo (historical) | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Saint Charles | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ord | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Tileville | 8.4 miles | 9 |
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 East Peru | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933455 | 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 465583. 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.
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.