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Indianola, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Indianola City. It lies in ZIP code area 50125. The Survey maps it on the Indianola quadrangle. 15,833 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Indianola within Warren County

On record in Indianola

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Indianola grew from 14,782 to 15,833 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
201014,782
202015,833+1,051 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Indianola between 2015 and 2017, burning about 55 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

60 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indianola in 131 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 50 hail, 36 thunderstorm wind, 25 heavy rain, 10 flood. The reports record 2 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
March 2002Thunderstorm WindIndianola1 hurt, $100,000Two semi-tractortrailer rigs blown of U.S. Highway 65. One driver received minor injuries.
June 1999LightningIndianola1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodIndianola$350,000no account filed
May 1998HailIndianola$200,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIndianola$100,000Public reported large trees down, damage to vehicles, and power lines down near Boston Ave in Indianola.
May 1996FloodIndianola$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIndianola$75,000Microburst event
June 1998HailIndianola$75,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIndianola$50,000Trained spotter reported a large tree down on a house.
June 2015Flash FloodIndianola$50,000Warren County Dispatch advised that a mobile home park on the south side of Indianola near the intersection of US 69 was flooding.
July 2010Flash FloodIndianola$50,000Law enforcement and amateur radio reported at least 18 inches of water flowing through a trailer park just west of Highway 65/69 with people stranded.
August 2004Flash FloodIndianola$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodIndianola$50,000no account filed
May 1998FloodIndianola$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodIndianola$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindIndianola$40,000no account filed
May 1997FloodIndianola$40,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindIndianola$30,000no account filed
June 1998FloodIndianola$30,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIndianola$25,000Trees and power lines down. Winds estimated 60 to 70 MPH and blew for several minutes.
July 2008Flash FloodIndianola$25,000Evacuating portion of trailer court caused by backup of small creek that empties into the Middle River.
May 2007FloodIndianola$25,000no account filed
October 2007FloodIndianola$25,000no account filed
July 2001HailIndianola$25,000no account filed
July 1997FloodIndianola$25,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodIndianola$20,000Law Enforcement reported creeks out of their banks on the south side of Indianola as well as multiple roadways covered by water.
July 2008Flash FloodIndianola$20,000High water from a rising creek was threatening numerous trailer homes at a trailer court in the south part of Indianola.
June 2001HailIndianola$20,000no account filed
August 1999LightningIndianola$16,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindIndianola$15,000Trees reported down on east Euclid Ave.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindIndianola$15,000no account filed
July 1996FloodIndianola$15,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000Iowa DOT reports tree and power line damage along Highway 92. Time estimated from radar.
June 2011HailIndianola$10,000Mostly half dollar size hail with a few golf ball stones.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailIndianola$10,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000no account filed
May 2000HailIndianola$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIndianola$10,000no account filed
August 1997HailIndianola$10,000no account filed
August 1997HailIndianola$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindIndianola$5,000Winds estimated at 60 MPH with small limbs down.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindIndianola$5,000Heavy rain and small hail was also reported.
June 2008HailIndianola$5,000A spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in southwest Indianola.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindIndianola$5,000Trees were down on the south side of town.
June 2011HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
June 2010HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
July 2006HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIndianola$5,000no account filed
June 1999HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
June 1999HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIndianola$5,000no account filed
March 1995HailIndianola$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindIndianola$4,000no account filed
June 2001HailIndianola$4,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIndianola$3,000A 20 foot wooden privacy fence was blown down and doors to a plastic shed were blown out.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Ackworth4.5 miles9
Summerset5.1 miles11
Hammondsburgh (historical)5.7 miles9
Clarkson (historical)5.8 miles9
Spring Hill5.9 miles11
Summerset Junction (historical)6.0 miles11
Greenbush7.0 miles11
Greenbush (historical)7.3 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 IndianolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986640The 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 457810. 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.