BlockBefore

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.

Imogene within Fremont County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Imogene 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.

YearPeople Change
201072
202039-33 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2016

Regional 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 burning2

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
13 March 2018Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSHENANDOAH FD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailImogene-Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING.
May 2024HailImogene-Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING.
May 2024Funnel CloudImogene-A funnel cloud was reported by broadcast media extending halfway to the ground. This was just south of the town of Imogene.
May 2023HailImogene-Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail.
June 2010HailImogene-Hail around baseball-size was reported by law enforcement around Imogene.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindImogene-Power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindImogene-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 80 mph by the Fire Department.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindImogene-Barn roof blown off and hit a car. Many power poles downed.
April 1999HailImogene-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Summit3.5 miles8
Randolph7.4 miles9
Anderson10.8 miles9
Farragut11.2 miles10
Tabor13.0 miles9
Sidney14.8 miles12
Riverton15.3 miles12
Thurman17.5 miles9

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 ImogeneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931792The 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.