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Mallard, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rush Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50562. The Survey maps it on the Mallard quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Mallard within Palo Alto County

Population over time

2 figures

Mallard fell from 274 to 257 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
2010274
2020257-17 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mallard in 2009, burning about 2 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/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
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Palo Alto County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mallard: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Plover PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Alto County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mallard in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMallard$500,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMallard$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMallard$50,000no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindMallard$40,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodMallard$25,000Water reported over Highway 4 south of Mallard.
April 2004HailMallard$25,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMallard$20,000Emergency manager reported tree branches down, including one on a church. Time estimated by radar.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindMallard$10,000no account filed
May 2005HailMallard$5,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMallard$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMallard$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMallard$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailMallard$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMallard$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMallard$3,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMallard$3,000no account filed
September 2011HailMallard$2,000Trained spotter reports quarter to ping pong ball size hail.
April 2004HailMallard$2,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMallard$2,000no account filed
June 2001HailMallard$1,000no account filed
June 2001HailMallard$1,000no account filed
May 2024HailMallard-Public reported slightly larger than golf ball size hail. Time estimated from radar.
June 2024Heavy RainMallard-Mesonet reported 3.78 inches of rain.
May 2023Heavy RainMallard-Storm total of 2.69 inch of rain thus far, rain still falling.
May 2023Heavy RainMallard-Storm total of 4.67 inches.
August 2023HailMallard-Delayed report relayed via social media that was time estimated from radar.
July 2020HailMallard-KICD radio relayed a report of hail up to tennis ball size near Mallard. Time and location estimated via radar.
September 2018Heavy RainMallard-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 3.89 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMallard-Home weather station measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
August 2015Heavy RainMallard-Public/citizen weather station reported heavy rainfall of 3.40 inches since 6 pm.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Mallard-This tornado entered from Pocahontas county. It continued to the northeast in rural areas of southern Palo Alto with only crop damage.
August 2023HailMallard-no account filed
May 2004HailMallard-no account filed
July 2003HailMallard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Alto 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
Curlew4.3 miles8
Rodman10.2 miles7
Ayrshire10.7 miles7
Emmetsburg12.2 miles7
Cylinder12.6 miles7
West Bend12.9 miles8
Ruthven17.6 miles7
Osgood17.8 miles7

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 MallardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q676439The 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 458740. 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.