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Missouri Valley, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in St. John Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51555. It stands on Euclid Creek. The Survey maps it on the Missouri Valley quadrangle. 2,678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Missouri Valley within Harrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Missouri Valley fell from 2,838 to 2,678 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
20102,838
20202,678-160 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

71 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Missouri Valley between 2009 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Missouri Valley: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 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
Loveland Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Missouri Valley in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMissouri Valley-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 1995HailMissouri Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Euclid1.7 miles8
Findley2.0 miles8
Orton4.7 miles8
Calhoun5.2 miles8
California Junction5.7 miles8
Beebeetown7.4 miles8
Modale7.9 miles9
Logan8.0 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 Missouri ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928324The 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 459150. 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.