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.
Population over time
2 figuresPercival 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 53 | -34 (-39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1907 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 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 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Smoking | 43 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becker Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Percival | 4 hurt | A 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 2021 | Hail | Percival | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Percival | - | Three farm storage buildings were destroyed 3 miles south of Thurman. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Percival | - | Local law enforcement reported flooding along 200th avenue near the city of Percival. |
| October 2014 | Flood | Percival | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Percival | - | A trained spotter reported wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Percival | - | Hail that reached around baseball-size was reported from southwest through west of the Thurman area. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Percival | - | 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 2010 | Flood | Percival | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Percival | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 55 to 60 mph downed a 2 inch in diameter tree limb. |
| April 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Percival | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported by a storm chaser. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Percival | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Percival | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Percival | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Percival | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Percival | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Percival | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Percival | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eureka (historical) | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| East Port (historical) | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| McPaul | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Thurman | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Payne | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sidney | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bartlett | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Anderson | 11.7 miles | 9 |
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 Percival | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3800695 | 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 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.






