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Plano, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Johns Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52581. The Survey maps it on the Plano quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Plano within Appanoose County

Population over time

2 figures

Plano fell from 70 to 59 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
201070
202059-11 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Plano between 2009 and 2015, burning about 46 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
23 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources23522 235TH , IA
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources47509 523RD, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Plano: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
L and W No. 5 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mc Clurg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plano QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Promise City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plano in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPlano$40,000no account filed
May 2003HailPlano$25,000no account filed
June 2017HailPlano$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPlano$10,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindPlano$5,000no account filed
May 1996HailPlano$5,000no account filed
September 2019Heavy RainPlano-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.80 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Plano-Tornado touched down briefly in open countryside.
April 2014HailPlano-no account filed
March 2006HailPlano-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Garfield2.5 miles11
Jerome2.7 miles10
Diamond (historical)4.3 miles9
Brazil4.9 miles9
Mystic5.7 miles9
Bellair (historical)5.7 miles11
Numa5.9 miles11
Sunshine6.5 miles11

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 PlanoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927746The 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 460204. 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.