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Montrose, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Montrose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52639. It stands on Horton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nauvoo quadrangle. 738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 530 feet above sea level.

Montrose within Lee County

On record in Montrose

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

Montrose fell from 898 to 738 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
2010898
2020738-160 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Montrose: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum. 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
Fort Madison Conversion Mo PlantMolybdenumProducer
Sandusky QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2006LightningMontrose1 hurtno account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMontrose1 hurtno account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMontrose$250,000Roof partially off business
June 2010FloodMontrose$75,000Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Keokuk going above the moderate flood stage level of 17.5 feet on June 22 around 5 am. It crested around 18.6 feet around 7 pm June 22. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 1 pm June 25.||The Mississippi River at Gregory Landing went above the moderate flood stage level of 18 feet on June 22 around 3 am. It crested around 19.7 feet around 1 am June 23. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 8 am June 28.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMontrose$60,000Numerous trees down
September 2003HailMontrose$50,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F1)Montrose$20,000Rated F1
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMontrose$7,000Numerous large limbs and trees were downed. Also, a corn field was flattened on 300th Street just east of Highway 27.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Montrose$7,000Rated very high end F0
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMontrose$5,000Large tree limbs down
April 1994HailMontrose$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailMontrose$4,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Reported by the public on wind observing equipment.
July 2024Flash FloodMontrose-The Emergency Manager reported that creeks were flooding in Montrose.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Trees and power line were reported down, with estimated 70 to 80 mph winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMontrose-NWS Storm Survey found damage to dozens of large trees and utility poles consistent|with peak wind gusts of 90 to 100 mph throughout the town.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter relayed a report from a scanner of a tree falling on a house. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMontrose-The roof was damaged at the Gregory Manufacturing Company north of Montrose. A picture of the damage was sent via social media. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter reported estimated winds of 50 to 60 MPH.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter reported a large tree branch was down at the local residence.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph topped off a 6 inch diameter tree near the library in Montrose, IA at 534 am CDT September 5.
May 2010HailMontrose-Ping pong ball-sized hail fell in Montrose, IA at 1040 pm May 12. The hail covered the ground.
June 2006HailMontrose-penny to nickel size hail with heavy rain.
May 1998HailMontrose-no account filed
April 1998Tornado (F0)Montrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Bluff Park0.7 miles15
Mount Clare2.1 miles15
Galland3.1 miles15
Bricker (historical)3.7 miles15
Summitville4.5 miles17
Sandusky4.9 miles17
New Boston5.2 miles12
Jeffersonville (historical)5.6 miles15

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 MontroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926272The 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 459199. 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.

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.