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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.

Mitchellville within Polk County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mitchellville 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,254
20202,485+231 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMitchellville$50,000Three mobile home units were damaged, all three with roof damage and one with damage to a wall. In addition, several trees were down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMitchellville$25,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMitchellville$25,000no account filed
June 2002HailMitchellville$20,000no account filed
June 2002HailMitchellville$15,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodMitchellville$5,000On I-80, four inches of water was on the interstate east of the east mix master.
June 2002HailMitchellville$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailMitchellville$5,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMitchellville$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailMitchellville$3,000no account filed
April 2006HailMitchellville$2,000no account filed
March 2022HailMitchellville-Report from mping.
June 2017HailMitchellville-Local fire department reported lots of quarter to golf ball sized hail near the Highway 65 exit along I-80.
June 2002HailMitchellville-no account filed
May 2001HailMitchellville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Santiago3.0 miles11
Ivy5.7 miles11
Altoona5.9 miles12
Bondurant6.0 miles12
Rising Sun8.4 miles11
Capitol Heights8.9 miles16
White Oak9.4 miles16
Farrar9.5 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 MitchellvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914731The 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.