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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.

Ireton within Sioux County

Population over time

2 figures

Ireton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010609
2020590-19 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2
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
11 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sioux County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindIreton$25,000Thunderstorm 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 1995Thunderstorm WindIreton$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and damaged a house when a large tree was blown over onto it.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIreton$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged five grain bins.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindIreton$5,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindIreton$1,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a farm shed, and caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2017HailIreton-Hail covering the ground.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Ireton-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2009HailIreton-no account filed
July 2009HailIreton-no account filed
June 2005HailIreton-no account filed
June 2005HailIreton-no account filed
September 2004HailIreton-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindIreton-no account filed
August 2000HailIreton-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Ireton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sioux 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
McNally4.5 miles9
Highland Park5.7 miles8
Maurice7.3 miles10
Lebanon8.8 miles8
Hawarden9.0 miles9
Westbrook Village10.3 miles8
Sioux Center10.5 miles8
Chatsworth11.2 miles18

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 IretonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q922017The 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.