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.
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
Lisbon Methodist Churchlisted 2016
Harrison Stuckslager Houselisted 1979
Torrance Houselisted 1983- Lisbon Main Street Historic Districtlisted 2019
- Meyers Farmstead Historic Districtlisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresLisbon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,152 | |
| 2020 | 2,233 | +81 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Mechanicsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Mechanicsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| 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 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1750 YEISLEY RD., LINN TWP, IOWA |
| 20 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 January 2012 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivanhoe Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lisbon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mc Cune Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Hail | Lisbon | $2,000 | Spotter reported 3 stones per square foot. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lisbon | $1,000 | Also reported by amateur radio; dime to quarter size hail from Lisbon to the Linn/Cedar county line. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | - | A lilac tree was reported blown down. The time was based on radar data. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | - | A trained spotter reported 6 inch diameter trees down at this location. |
| August 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Lisbon | - | Fire Department reported that a funnel cloud was sighted near Lisbon. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | - | Trees down on power lines in the town of Lisbon. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Lisbon | - | Tornado passed across open country along highway 30. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Lisbon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Paralta | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bertram | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Springville | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Vernon View | 10.6 miles | 15 | |
| Ely | 11.1 miles | 16 | |
| Viola | 11.8 miles | 14 | |
| Whittier | 12.7 miles | 14 |
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 Lisbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1841398 | 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 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.








