Magnolia, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Magnolia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51550. The Survey maps it on the Missouri Valley NW quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.
On record in Magnolia
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
- Old Harrison County Courthouselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresMagnolia grew from 183 to 190 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 | 183 | |
| 2020 | 190 | +7 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Missouri Valley NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia between 2006 and 2014, burning about 183 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Magnolia | - | A tornado developed in woodlands about 4 NNW of Magnolia, IA. Road maintenance workers noted damage to the trees south of 174th Trail Road on the south side of Steer Creek. The tornado crossed 174th Trail breaking power poles and damaging a farmstead. The tornado moved generally north moving across agricultural fields and skirting the eastern periphery of the Loess Hills State Forest west of Juneau road, damaging a house and trees. The tornado veered to the NNE, crossing 154th Trail Road, where it moved across an impassable area of Loess Hills State Forest west of Kelsey Avenue. It crossed just south of the intersection of Kelsey Avenue and Easton Trail Road, causing damage to a farmstead and power poles. It continued to move NNE, snapping trunks and large branches of trees and destroying barns and outbuildings along 110th Street, as well as along Laredo Avenue north of 112th Trail Road. The tornado began to weaken as it approached the Harrison-Monona county line, producing only very minor damage as it moved into Monona County east of Peach Avenue. The peak estimated winds in this tornado for this segment of its track were 110 miles per hour. The maximum width achieved by the tornado was 766 yards, with an average width during this segment estimated at 450 yards. |
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Magnolia | - | Public reported 4.4 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Magnolia | - | Public reported a measured 5.5-inches of rainfall and that it was still raining at the time of the report. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Emergency manager reported a few small tree limbs broken and on the roadways. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A report of 60 mph winds was received via amateur radio, although no local damage was noted at the time. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Six to eight inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated around 60 mph. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Magnolia | - | Hail up to dime size covered the ground around Magnolia. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph created tree damage in Magnolia. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Trees downed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Trees uprooted and power lines downed. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Magnolia | - | 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.
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 Magnolia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930082 | 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 458733. 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.
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.




