Imogene, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51645. The Survey maps it on the Imogene quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
On record in Imogene
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
St. Patrick Churchlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresImogene fell from 72 to 39 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 | 72 | |
| 2020 | 39 | -33 (-46%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Imogene quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Imogene between 2016 and 2018, burning about 100 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | SHENANDOAH FD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imogene in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Imogene | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Imogene | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING. |
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Imogene | - | A funnel cloud was reported by broadcast media extending halfway to the ground. This was just south of the town of Imogene. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Imogene | - | Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Imogene | - | Hail around baseball-size was reported by law enforcement around Imogene. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Imogene | - | Power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Imogene | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 80 mph by the Fire Department. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Imogene | - | Barn roof blown off and hit a car. Many power poles downed. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Imogene | - | 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.
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 Imogene | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931792 | 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 457781. 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.
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.





