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Fruitland, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fruitland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52749. The Survey maps it on the Letts quadrangle. 963 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Fruitland within Muscatine County

Population over time

2 figures

Fruitland fell from 977 to 963 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
2010977
2020963-14 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 2008 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscatine County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fruitland: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Weis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Acme Fuel and Material Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blue Ribbon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hahn Ready Mix Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northern Gravel Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richter PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muscatine County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitland in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 2007Tornado (EF3)Fruitland6 hurt, $15,000,000A tornado entered into Muscatine County from Louisa County just south of Fruitland, IA. It progressed to the northeast through the center of Fruitland destroying the post office and city hall building, numerous homes, and overturning some railroad cars. The tornado weakened as it approached the southwest portions of Muscatine. In Muscatine, the western sections of town had varying degrees of damage, which was mainly confined to roof damage. At a car dealership, some cars were displaced. The tornado eventually lifted on the northeast side of Muscatine near the junction of highways 22 and 61. Debris from Muscatine and Fruitland fell in Lowden, IA. Some personal papers were found 1 to 4 miles northwest of Lowden. Lowden is approximately 30 miles NNE of Muscatine.|
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFruitland$2,000Utility poles and several trees were down near Fruitland Road and Spitz Drive. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFruitland-A public report of a small flag pole bent over and a medium sized tree branch down.
May 2023HailFruitland-Report from Mping.
May 2019FloodFruitland-The Mississippi River at Muscatine (MUSI4) rose above its major flood stage of 20 feet during the early morning of May 28th and continued into June. The river crested in June, with the stage rising to 24.0 feet at the end of May 31st.
May 2017HailFruitland-A picture from the public of hail was received via Twitter. The time was estimated from radar.
May 2012HailFruitland-Time of the event was estimated from radar.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindFruitland-Time of the event was estimated from radar.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFruitland-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches about 5 miles south southwest of Muscatine, IA around 500 pm June 19.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindFruitland-A wind gust was measured to be 60 mph near Fruitland, IA around 12:05 am.
May 2023HailFruitland-no account filed
March 2016HailFruitland-no account filed
May 2009HailFruitland-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFruitland-no account filed
June 1999HailFruitland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muscatine 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
Ardon4.1 miles9
Muscatine6.6 miles12
Cranston7.2 miles8
Dayfield (historical)7.6 miles9
Kent Estates7.9 miles12
Conesville11.8 miles8
Port Allen (historical)11.9 miles7
Summit12.0 miles14

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 FruitlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q572375The 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 456796. 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.