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.
Population over time
2 figuresMalvern 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,142 | |
| 2020 | 1,046 | -96 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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
- 1956 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | GLENWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT |
| 31 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 October 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 19 January 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvern | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | Trained spotter report of downed 4 inch in diameter tree branches. Wind gusts were estimated near 60-65 mph. |
| October 2025 | Hail | Malvern | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Malvern | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Malvern | - | The office received a report from amateur radio of 1 inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Trained spotter reported hail in varying sizes ranging from 1.75 inches up to 2.25 inches. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Public reported 1.75-inch hail via mPing. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Public reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Public reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Trained spotter reported 1.25-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | Trained spotter reported golf ball and tennis ball size hail that damaged siding, roofing, and car windows. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Malvern | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Malvern | - | Public reported 1 inch hail in Malvern, IA. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Malvern | - | A spotter reported around 3 inches of rain from thunderstorms overnight. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed several tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter east northeast of Malvern. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed power lines near Malvern. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some large trees southeast of Malvern. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Malvern | - | Dime to nickel size hail fell near Malvern for a few minutes. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Malvern | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported a mile or two west through north of Malvern. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malvern | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Malvern | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Cloud | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Clark | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Hillsdale | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hastings | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Balfour | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Strahan | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Silver City | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Glenwood | 8.9 miles | 12 |
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 Malvern | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928682 | 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 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.




