Mapleton, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maple Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51034. It stands on Simmons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle. 1,165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.
On record in Mapleton
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 2 records
Trinity Memorial Episcopal Churchlisted 1990- Round Barn, Cooper Townshiplisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresMapleton fell from 1,224 to 1,165 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 | 1,224 | |
| 2020 | 1,165 | -59 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Mapleton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton in 2014, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 14 injuries. 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 2011 | Tornado (EF3) | Mapleton | 14 hurt | A tornado caused extensive damage in the Mapleton area with about 100 houses destroyed and many others severely damaged in a 12 to 15 block area on the southwest side of town. This caused the displacement of around 500 to 600 people. Most garages and stand alone structures were destroyed. In addition, large trees were uprooted and windows blown out of vehicles. Twelve to 14 people sustained minor injuries, the most severe a broken leg. The worst property damage was noted to be on the lower end of the EF3 category. The tornado started about 2 miles west southwest of Mapleton, moved into town, then turned north and ended 1 mile north of town. The path length was around 3.5 miles and the maximum width was around 3/4 of a mile. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | $50,000 | Heavy rainfall caused several inches of water on roads in the city of Mapleton, as well as on the county roads outside of town. Rainfall of 1.80 inches was reported in a half hour leading to the flash flooding. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Monona County dispatch relayed a report from an officer in Mapleton of pea to quarter size hail. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Numerous trees and power lines were reported downed in town. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | Water was reported running over county roads in an area from Whiting to Rodney. There was also street flooding reported in the town of Mapleton. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph blew over a semi on Highway 141 and also blew a grain bin across the highway southwest of Mapleton. The winds also downed trees and power lines in the Mapleton area and caused scattered building damage. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Golfball-size hail was reported with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a EF-3 tornado in Mapleton. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | The public estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Mapleton | - | A brief tornado touched down 6 miles northeast of Castana causing mainly just tree damage. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at up to 60 mph. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Winds estimated at 70 mph were reported by the public about 4.5 miles southwest of Mapleton. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts split a large tree in town. The winds were estimated at around 60 mph. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Lasted 10 minutes. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Large limbs downed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Tree fell on house. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | 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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q651053 | 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 458787. 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.




