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Malcom, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Malcom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50157. The Survey maps it on the Malcom quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Malcom within Poweshiek County

On record in Malcom

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

Malcom fell from 287 to 270 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
2010287
2020270-17 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Malcom between 2007 and 2020, burning about 122 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 August 2020Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesMALCOM
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2014Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poweshiek 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 Malcom: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Malcolm Stone Co. MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Poweshiek County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malcom in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMalcom$50,000no account filed
June 1994HailMalcom$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poweshiek 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
Ewart5.4 miles8
Brooklyn6.3 miles8
Jacobs6.5 miles8
Montezuma8.6 miles8
Sheridan8.8 miles8
Grinnell9.0 miles8
Holiday Lake9.9 miles8
Westfield10.7 miles8

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 MalcomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q612219The 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 458739. 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.