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Percival, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51648. The Survey maps it on the Nebraska City quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 930 feet above sea level.

Percival within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Percival fell from 87 to 53 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
201087
202053-34 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Percival between 2006 and 2020, burning about 105 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1

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 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2020Smoking43 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont 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 Percival: 1 past producer, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Becker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Percival in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 8 hail, 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 4 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 2012Tornado (EF2)Percival4 hurtA tornado touched down near Percival, Iowa and began a 12 mile long track that went through Thurman causing extensive home, vehicle and tree damage to that town. It was estimated that at least 70 percent of the buildings in Thurman sustained damage, including 14 homes that were destroyed. The tornado was rated at EF2. Only minor injuries were reported in Thurman. However, as the tornado crossed Interstate 29, four semi trucks were overturned requiring the hospitalization of four truckers, the most serious with a punctured lung.
May 2021HailPercival-Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPercival-Three farm storage buildings were destroyed 3 miles south of Thurman.
May 2016Flash FloodPercival-Local law enforcement reported flooding along 200th avenue near the city of Percival.
October 2014FloodPercival-Heavy rainfall in late September led to river flooding into early October along the Missouri River. The river briefly rose to flood stage in the evening on the 1st, crested just above flood stage and fell below flood stage on the same evening. The flooding was minor and confined to low-lying areas along the river.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindPercival-A trained spotter reported wind gusts to 60 mph.
May 2014HailPercival-Hail that reached around baseball-size was reported from southwest through west of the Thurman area.
May 2013FloodPercival-Several episodes of heavy thunderstorm rainfall across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa in late May created flooding along the Missouri River across the the lowlands of western Fremont County. The river at Nebraska City crested twice, first on the morning of the 30th at 18.00 feet, with the second crest of 18.62 feet occurring on the evening of the 30th. The flooding was minor lowland flooding.
October 2010FloodPercival-This flooding carried over from September when periodic heavy rain events combined with increased releases from upstream reservoirs and high rivers in northwest Iowa. The Missouri River at Rulo began the month a little over 17.5 feet, flood stage is 17 feet. The river gradually rose to a little over 18 feet during the evening of the 3rd before slowly falling, eventually below flood stage by late in the evening on the 9th. Mainly agricultural lowlands were affected by the minor flooding.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindPercival-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 55 to 60 mph downed a 2 inch in diameter tree limb.
April 2002Tornado (F0)Percival-A brief tornado touchdown was reported by a storm chaser.
June 2018HailPercival-no account filed
June 2018HailPercival-no account filed
August 2014HailPercival-no account filed
June 2014HailPercival-no account filed
June 2005HailPercival-no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudPercival-no account filed
April 1995HailPercival-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Eureka (historical)1.7 miles15
East Port (historical)5.0 miles12
McPaul5.1 miles15
Thurman6.0 miles9
Payne6.2 miles12
Sidney8.8 miles12
Bartlett9.4 miles15
Anderson11.7 miles9

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 PercivalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3800695The 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 460082. 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.