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Massena, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Massena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50853. The Survey maps it on the Massena quadrangle. 359 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Massena within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Massena grew from 355 to 359 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
2010355
2020359+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Storms near this place

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Massena in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 heavy rain, 17 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
April 1999Tornado (F3)Massena$186,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMassena$100,000no account filed
May 2007FloodMassena$75,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindMassena$75,000no account filed
May 2019Flash FloodMassena$50,000Quick rises have happened along the West Nodaway River in Cass County. Evacuations along the West Nodaway River are being recommended to nearby residents.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMassena$30,000Trained spotter reported 3 inch diameter tree branches down along with a few farm sheds toppled. Wide swaths of corn were also reported bent down in the vicinity.
June 2008Flash FloodMassena$25,000The Cass County Sheriff's Office reported highway 92 was closed on the west edge of Massena due to water over the bridge.
May 2019Flash FloodMassena$20,000Cass County Dispatch reported flash flooding near 740th and Rockport, and 730th and Seattle, near the West Nodaway River.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMassena$15,000Widespread tree damage was reported in Massena.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMassena$10,000Two to three foot diameter trees reported down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMassena$10,000Twenty four inch diameter trees were down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMassena$10,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMassena$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailMassena$5,000no account filed
May 2003HailMassena$5,000no account filed
April 1995HailMassena$4,000no account filed
June 2008HailMassena$3,000A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Massena.
June 2007HailMassena$2,000no account filed
June 2006HailMassena$2,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMassena$2,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMassena$2,000no account filed
June 2000HailMassena$2,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMassena$1,500Large, old tree down in Massena. Damage to electrical conduit on side of building. Images submitted via social media. Time estimated from radar.
July 2004HailMassena$1,000no account filed
April 2023Heavy RainMassena-A 24 hour rainfall report of 2.58 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainMassena-A 24 hour rainfall report of 3.04 inches.
May 2019Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.60 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.88 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.69 inches over the last 48 hours.
August 2017Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.43 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.40 inches.
August 2016Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.46 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.69 inches over the last 24 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainMassena-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.70 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
September 2014Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall for the past 24 hours was 4.20 inches.
October 2014Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall of 2.18 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2014Heavy RainMassena-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.28 inches.
April 2014Heavy RainMassena-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 2.59 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.92 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall in the past 24 hours was 4.90 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 1.81 inches.
April 2012Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall of 3.28 inches in 24 hours.
July 2009Heavy RainMassena-Rainfall total so far 4.30 inches, mostly since midnight.
August 2013HailMassena-no account filed
April 2012HailMassena-no account filed
March 2011HailMassena-no account filed
May 2003HailMassena-no account filed
May 2003HailMassena-no account filed
May 2003HailMassena-no account filed
May 2003HailMassena-no account filed
April 2003HailMassena-no account filed
May 2003HailMassena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Dewey4.7 miles9
Cumberland5.6 miles9
Norway Center8.4 miles9
Lyman11.6 miles9
Wiota11.9 miles9
Anita13.2 miles9
Grove City (historical)13.8 miles9
Sycamore Village16.1 miles9

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 MassenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928585The 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 458849. 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.

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.