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Pisgah, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51564. It stands on Cobb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pisgah quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Pisgah within Harrison County

On record in Pisgah

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

Pisgah fell from 251 to 249 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
2010251
2020249-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pisgah between 2006 and 2018, burning about 793 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism3

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
16 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined202 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1801 124TH TRAIL, PISGAH, IA
18 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources32565 LARPERTEUR MEMORIAL RD, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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 Pisgah: 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
J McwilliamsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Sioux PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pisgah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pisgah in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
May 2023Flash FloodPisgah$500,000Forest Service reported up to two dozen culverts washed out and six county roads that were partially or fully washed out. Large trees were washed into fields and there was significant damage to farm fields in several areas in the counties. There are significant areas of crop fields that likely lost in excess of 100 tons per acre from that one heavy rain event. The county estimated the damage to be approximately $400,000-$600,000.
April 2026HailPisgah-Public report of hail estimated at 1.50 inches in diameter.
April 2026HailPisgah-Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1.00 inch in diameter.
September 2025HailPisgah-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.00 inches in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Pisgah-This tornado was based on an eyewitness observation of two simultaneous tornadoes passing east and west of a farmstead. There was little damage observed with this tornado, with only minor tree damage being reported. The peak estimated winds in this tornado were 70 mph, with a peak width of 200 yards and an average width of 100 yards.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPisgah-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed 2 trees that were 20 to 30 feet tall with trunks nearly 10 inches in diameter. The time was estimated from radar.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Pisgah-A brief EF0 tornado spun up on the leading edge of a squall line about 1.2 miles southeast of Pisgah. Trees were snapped or uprooted from the tornado. The tornado ended about 1/2 mile east of Highway F20L and 135th St.
July 2009HailPisgah-The hail was accompanied by strong winds but no estimate of the wind speed was given.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindPisgah-Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph knocked down several large tree limbs and partially tore a metal roof off of a building in town.
June 2017HailPisgah-no account filed
June 2014HailPisgah-no account filed
April 2002HailPisgah-no account filed
August 2001HailPisgah-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPisgah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Orson4.7 miles8
Little Sioux5.3 miles8
Allen (historical)6.0 miles8
Echo6.2 miles8
River Sioux6.6 miles8
Magnolia9.7 miles8
Mondamin9.8 miles8
Willett13.3 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 PisgahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576628The 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 460192. 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.