Mitchellville, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50169. The Survey maps it on the Mitchellville quadrangle. 2,485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
On record in Mitchellville
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
Universalist Churchlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresMitchellville grew from 2,254 to 2,485 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 | 2,254 | |
| 2020 | 2,485 | +231 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1930 USGS Mitchellville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Mitchellville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mitchellville in 2017, burning about 90 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mitchellville: 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perkins Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchellville in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellville | $50,000 | Three mobile home units were damaged, all three with roof damage and one with damage to a wall. In addition, several trees were down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mitchellville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mitchellville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Mitchellville | $5,000 | On I-80, four inches of water was on the interstate east of the east mix master. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mitchellville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mitchellville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Mitchellville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mitchellville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Mitchellville | - | Report from mping. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Mitchellville | - | Local fire department reported lots of quarter to golf ball sized hail near the Highway 65 exit along I-80. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mitchellville | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mitchellville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Ivy | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Altoona | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Bondurant | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Rising Sun | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Capitol Heights | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| White Oak | 9.4 miles | 16 | |
| Farrar | 9.5 miles | 8 |
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 Mitchellville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1914731 | 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 459156. 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.






