Pella, Iowa

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Marion County

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 12 of 20 shown

• Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Passenger Depot-Pellalisted 1991
• Collegiate Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 2017
• East Amsterdam Schoollisted 2000
• First Christian Churchlisted 2007
• Philipus J. and Cornelia Koelman Houselisted 2005
• Pella Opera Houselisted 1992
• Peoples Nationals Banklisted 2010
• Porter-Rhynsburger Houselisted 2003
• Dominie Henry P. Scholte Houselisted 1982
• Ten Hagen Cottage-Stegman Storelisted 2008
• Thomas F. and Nancy Tuttle Houselisted 2015
• William Van Asch House-Huibert Debooy Commercial Roomlisted 1987

Every listing in Marion County

Pella grew from 10,352 to 10,464 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.

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.

• 1910 USGS Pella quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1912 USGS Pella quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
• 1980 USGS Pella quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pella in 2009, burning about 120 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Howell (historical)

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pella: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Marion County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pella in 92 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 15 heavy rain, 4 flash flood. The reports record 13 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.

Every storm recorded in Marion County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460063. 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.