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Mingo, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Poweshiek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50168. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mingo quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Mingo within Jasper County

On record in Mingo

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mingo grew from 302 to 302 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
2010302
20203020 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mingo between 2013 and 2015, burning about 102 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 burning2

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
31 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2013Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mingo: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
John Geisler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kilker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mingo in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2003HailMingo$20,000no account filed
November 2005HailMingo$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMingo$2,000Large tree reportedly downed in Mingo by KCCI TV.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMingo-Estimated 70 to 80 wind gusts reported from Sheriff Deputy.
September 2019Tornado (EFU)Mingo-Tornado was suggested by a TDS on radar and subsequently confirmed via high resolution satellite imagery. A short path through rural cropland, hence the EF-U rating.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMingo-Estimated winds of 60 MPH along with pea size hail.
March 2007HailMingo-no account filed
June 2003HailMingo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Green Castle1.9 miles11
Valeria3.4 miles11
Ira4.2 miles8
Oswalt5.0 miles11
Clyde5.2 miles8
Goddard5.9 miles8
Colfax6.5 miles8
Baxter8.1 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 MingoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928386The 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 459132. 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.