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Lamoni, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lamoni City. It lies in ZIP code area 50140. The Survey maps it on the Lamoni South quadrangle. 1,969 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

Lamoni within Decatur County

On record in Lamoni

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

Lamoni fell from 2,324 to 1,969 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
20102,324
20201,969-355 (-15%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lamoni: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Davis City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spaulding QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamoni in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 8 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2010FloodLamoni$250,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodLamoni$100,000Eight inches of standing water in town. Highway 69 closed due to water on the road and stranded vehicles.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindLamoni$50,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodLamoni$25,000Water was over 280th Street 1 mile west of County Road R14.
June 2014HailLamoni$20,000no account filed
June 2014HailLamoni$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLamoni$10,000Law enforcement reported a tree down on a power line in Lamoni. Time estimated from radar.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLamoni$10,000A trained spotter reported damage by estimated 75 MPH winds.
April 2003HailLamoni$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLamoni$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLamoni$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLamoni$10,000no account filed
June 2014HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindLamoni$5,000no account filed
April 2003HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
July 2003HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
May 2002HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLamoni$5,000no account filed
July 2001HailLamoni$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLamoni$5,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLamoni$2,000Two large tree branches down on the north side of town. One was down across the road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLamoni$2,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLamoni$1,000Several three to four inch branches were down across the yard.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Lamoni$1,000Minor damage in rural area with brief touchdown.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindLamoni-Delayed report. Several large trees down in central sections of Lamoni, followed shortly by a 71 mph gust at the Lamoni airport.
August 2018Heavy RainLamoni-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.50 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainLamoni-Lamoni Municipal Airport recorded heavy rainfall of 2.61 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
October 2018Heavy RainLamoni-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.88 inches over the last 24 hours.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLamoni-Lamoni ASOS recorded a 77 mph wind gust.
October 2017Heavy RainLamoni-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.35 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2017Heavy RainLamoni-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 1.90 inches.
October 2013Heavy RainLamoni-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.61 inches.
August 2009Heavy RainLamoni-Rainfall of 3.00 inches was reported.
June 2008HailLamoni-A small amount of penny size hail fell along with 40 MPH winds.
July 2008Heavy RainLamoni-Report from KCCI schoolnet site of 4.75 inches of rain.
June 2015HailLamoni-no account filed
June 2014HailLamoni-no account filed
May 2012HailLamoni-no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLamoni-no account filed
August 2005HailLamoni-no account filed
June 2001HailLamoni-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Togo (historical)2.6 miles11
Tuskeego4.0 miles10
Terre Haute5.5 miles10
Barrell (historical)6.3 miles10
Davis City6.6 miles10
New Buda6.7 miles10
Decatur9.8 miles10
Blockly (historical)9.8 miles10

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 LamoniAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q989448The 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 458214. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.