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Malvern, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Malvern City. It lies in ZIP code area 51551. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malvern quadrangle. 1,046 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Malvern within Mills County

Population over time

2 figures

Malvern fell from 1,142 to 1,046 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
20101,142
20201,046-96 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Malvern between 2005 and 2018, burning about 214 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 April 2016Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesGLENWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT
31 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2005Equipment and vehicle use200 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 January 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills 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 Malvern: 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
MalvernStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mills County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malvern in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMalvern$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMalvern-Trained spotter report of downed 4 inch in diameter tree branches. Wind gusts were estimated near 60-65 mph.
October 2025HailMalvern-Trained spotter report of hail with most stones estimated at 0.5 inches in diameter, and a few stones up to 0.75 inches in diameter.
April 2024HailMalvern-Shortly past half the hour the office began receiving reports of hail up to the size of golf balls in Malvern. Hail continue to fall for the next 15 minutes and grew in size after the initial report. The largest measured hailstone was 2.25 inches in diameter.
April 2024HailMalvern-The office received a report from amateur radio of 1 inch hail.
May 2023HailMalvern-Trained spotter reported hail in varying sizes ranging from 1.75 inches up to 2.25 inches.
May 2023HailMalvern-Public reported 1.75-inch hail via mPing.
May 2023HailMalvern-Public reported 1-inch hail.
May 2023HailMalvern-Public reported 1.75-inch hail.
July 2023HailMalvern-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail.
July 2023HailMalvern-Public reported 1.5-inch hail.
July 2023HailMalvern-Trained spotter reported 1.25-inch hail.
April 2023HailMalvern-Trained spotter reported golf ball and tennis ball size hail that damaged siding, roofing, and car windows.
April 2023HailMalvern-Received 2 reports from the public in a span of 5 minutes for hail 1.75 to 2 inches in diameter via mPING and social media.
April 2022HailMalvern-Public reported 1 inch hail in Malvern, IA.
June 2011Heavy RainMalvern-A spotter reported around 3 inches of rain from thunderstorms overnight.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindMalvern-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed several tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter east northeast of Malvern.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMalvern-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed power lines near Malvern.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMalvern-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some large trees southeast of Malvern.
July 2004HailMalvern-Dime to nickel size hail fell near Malvern for a few minutes.
August 2004HailMalvern-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported a mile or two west through north of Malvern.
September 2008HailMalvern-no account filed
June 2006HailMalvern-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMalvern-no account filed
July 1997HailMalvern-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMalvern-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMalvern-no account filed
June 1996HailMalvern-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mills 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
White Cloud3.5 miles8
Clark4.3 miles8
Hillsdale4.5 miles12
Hastings4.8 miles9
Balfour5.4 miles12
Strahan5.9 miles8
Silver City8.1 miles12
Glenwood8.9 miles12

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 MalvernAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928682The 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 458747. 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.