Ireton, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reading Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51027. The Survey maps it on the Ireton quadrangle. 590 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIreton fell from 609 to 590 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 | 609 | |
| 2020 | 590 | -19 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Ireton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ireton between 2009 and 2015, burning about 121 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ireton in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted or split several trees, and blew down numerous branches, including some branches 6 inches in diameter. Several homes were damaged by falling trees, tree debris, and directly by the wind which damaged roofs. Corn and soybean crops were damaged in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and damaged a house when a large tree was blown over onto it. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged five grain bins. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a farm shed, and caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ireton | - | Hail covering the ground. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Ireton | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Ireton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Ireton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNally | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Highland Park | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Maurice | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lebanon | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Hawarden | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Westbrook Village | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Sioux Center | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Chatsworth | 11.2 miles | 18 |
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 Ireton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q922017 | 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 457850. 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.




