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.
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
- Pleasant Hill Schoollisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresLineville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 217 | |
| 2020 | 195 | -22 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Lineville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Lineville | $50,000 | A 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lineville | $50,000 | A 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 2014 | Hail | Lineville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Lineville | $10,000 | At least 10 inches of water over a road with deeper water over other area roads. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Lineville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lineville | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported at least half dollar sized hail, and noted some may be larger. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lineville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lineville | $3,000 | Hail up to quarter size fell along Douglas St. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lineville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lineville | - | Damage to tin buildings in town. Trailers shifted on foundation. Tree limbs down and some trees uprooted. Delayed report, time estimated from radar. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lineville | - | Post office reported large tree branches down throughout town and power remains out at the time. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Lineville | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| April 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Lineville | - | Only a brief tornado touchdown with no significant damage. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lineville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clio | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Big Spring (historical) | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Clinton Center (historical) | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Hodge | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Allerton | 12.0 miles | 7 | |
| Saxon | 12.4 miles | 12 | |
| Sewal | 14.7 miles | 7 | |
| Harvard | 15.4 miles | 7 |
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 Lineville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q660110 | 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 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.




