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Lineville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Grand River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50147. The Survey maps it on the Lineville quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Lineville within Wayne County

On record in Lineville

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

Lineville fell from 217 to 195 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
2010217
2020195-22 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lineville in 2008, burning about 200 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

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
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lineville: 1 past producer. None of them 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lineville in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
September 1993HailLineville$50,000A cold front dropped southeast across Iowa during the middle part of the day on the 2nd. Thunderstorm fired up around noon along the front and became severe with high winds and hail. Marble-size hail occurred over the southwest corner of the state in Shenandoah. A short time later, quarter-size and slightly larger hail was reported east of Mt. Ayr. Gusty winds had moved through the city with one large tree downed at the court house, along with other scattered reports of damage. The storm produced about an inch of rain in 20 minutes. In Taylor county, high winds blew out a window of a house in Bedford. Winds also gusted to 55 to 60 mph in Gravity along with marble- to golfball-size hail. The combination of winds and hail broke several windows in houses around town. As the storms progressed farther south, winds of at least 70 mph blew through the town of Mt. Ayr as a second storm hit the city. The winds tore 3,300 square feet of roofing material from the high school, causing about $80,000 in damage. Around the same time, high winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Leon. Also in Decatur County, high winds caused widespread damage in the city of Lamoni and overturned a tractor-semitrailer truck. In Davis City, high winds knocked down trees and damaged a mobile home. In Wayne County, hail the size of half dollars combined with gusty winds broke windows out of a house in Lineville.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindLineville$50,000A cold front dropped southeast across Iowa during the middle part of the day on the 2nd. Thunderstorm fired up around noon along the front and became severe with high winds and hail. Marble-size hail occurred over the southwest corner of the state in Shenandoah. A short time later, quarter-size and slightly larger hail was reported east of Mt. Ayr. Gusty winds had moved through the city with one large tree downed at the court house, along with other scattered reports of damage. The storm produced about an inch of rain in 20 minutes. In Taylor county, high winds blew out a window of a house in Bedford. Winds also gusted to 55 to 60 mph in Gravity along with marble- to golfball-size hail. The combination of winds and hail broke several windows in houses around town. As the storms progressed farther south, winds of at least 70 mph blew through the town of Mt. Ayr as a second storm hit the city. The winds tore 3,300 square feet of roofing material from the high school, causing about $80,000 in damage. Around the same time, high winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Leon. Also in Decatur County, high winds caused widespread damage in the city of Lamoni and overturned a tractor-semitrailer truck. In Davis City, high winds knocked down trees and damaged a mobile home. In Wayne County, hail the size of half dollars combined with gusty winds broke windows out of a house in Lineville.
June 2014HailLineville$15,000no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodLineville$10,000At least 10 inches of water over a road with deeper water over other area roads.
March 2006HailLineville$10,000no account filed
July 2015HailLineville$5,000Trained spotter reported at least half dollar sized hail, and noted some may be larger.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLineville$5,000no account filed
May 2012HailLineville$3,000Hail up to quarter size fell along Douglas St.
May 2004HailLineville$1,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLineville-Damage to tin buildings in town. Trailers shifted on foundation. Tree limbs down and some trees uprooted. Delayed report, time estimated from radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLineville-Post office reported large tree branches down throughout town and power remains out at the time.
June 2019HailLineville-Public reported quarter sized hail.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Lineville-Only a brief tornado touchdown with no significant damage.
June 2013HailLineville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Clio5.3 miles7
Big Spring (historical)7.0 miles7
Clinton Center (historical)7.6 miles7
Hodge9.4 miles7
Allerton12.0 miles7
Saxon12.4 miles12
Sewal14.7 miles7
Harvard15.4 miles7

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 LinevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q660110The 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 458412. 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.

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.