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Lisbon, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52253. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 2,233 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Lisbon within Linn County

On record in Lisbon

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lisbon grew from 2,152 to 2,233 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
20102,152
20202,233+81 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lisbon between 2010 and 2015, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning3
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 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1750 YEISLEY RD., LINN TWP, IOWA
20 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 January 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lisbon: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ivanhoe Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lisbon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mc Cune QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2006HailLisbon$2,000Spotter reported 3 stones per square foot.
April 2006HailLisbon$1,000Also reported by amateur radio; dime to quarter size hail from Lisbon to the Linn/Cedar county line.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLisbon-A lilac tree was reported blown down. The time was based on radar data.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Lisbon-A trained spotter reported a tornado north of Sutliff in far southeast Linn County. Public video also showed a tornado south and east of Mechanicsville, IA. There was no known damage to assign a rating, so the tornado is classified as an EF-Unknown.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLisbon-A trained spotter reported 6 inch diameter trees down at this location.
August 2022Funnel CloudLisbon-Fire Department reported that a funnel cloud was sighted near Lisbon.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLisbon-Trees down on power lines in the town of Lisbon.
May 1997Tornado (F1)Lisbon-Tornado passed across open country along highway 30.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLisbon-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Lisbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Mount Vernon1.7 miles14
Paralta8.2 miles14
Bertram8.2 miles15
Springville10.0 miles14
Vernon View10.6 miles15
Ely11.1 miles16
Viola11.8 miles14
Whittier12.7 miles14

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 LisbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1841398The 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 458429. 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.