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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.

Mapleton within Monona County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mapleton 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,224
20201,165-59 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

10 since 2014

Regional 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 burning6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2014Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF3)Mapleton14 hurtA 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMapleton$500,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindMapleton$500,000no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodMapleton$50,000Heavy 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMapleton$50,000no account filed
May 2023HailMapleton-Monona County dispatch relayed a report from an officer in Mapleton of pea to quarter size hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMapleton-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Numerous trees and power lines were reported downed in town.
June 2014Flash FloodMapleton-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 2011Thunderstorm WindMapleton-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 2011HailMapleton-Golfball-size hail was reported with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a EF-3 tornado in Mapleton.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMapleton-The public estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Mapleton-A brief tornado touched down 6 miles northeast of Castana causing mainly just tree damage.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMapleton-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at up to 60 mph.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Winds estimated at 70 mph were reported by the public about 4.5 miles southwest of Mapleton.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Thunderstorm wind gusts split a large tree in town. The winds were estimated at around 60 mph.
April 1999HailMapleton-Lasted 10 minutes.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Large limbs downed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Tree fell on house.
August 2012HailMapleton-no account filed
July 2008HailMapleton-no account filed
July 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
June 2003HailMapleton-no account filed
May 1998HailMapleton-no account filed
July 1997HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1996HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1996HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1996HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudMapleton-no account filed
June 1996HailMapleton-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMapleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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
Ticonic8.5 miles8
Castana8.8 miles9
Rodney8.9 miles8
Ute9.2 miles8
Soldier12.5 miles8
Kennebec12.6 miles9
Turin13.7 miles9
Moorhead17.1 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 MapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q651053The 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.