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Shenandoah, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51601. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shenandoah East quadrangle. 4,925 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Shenandoah within Page County

On record in Shenandoah

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Shenandoah fell from 5,150 to 4,925 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
20105,150
20204,925-225 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Shenandoah between 2009 and 2011, burning about 20 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/undetermined6

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
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources57006 241ST ST., TECHNICAL SERVICES. SEC 18 GRANT
21 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources24656 SANDHILL TRAIL, SECTION #17, GRANT TOWNSHIP,
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesA. AVE AND OLD HIGHWAY 6 F-29 COUNTY ROAD, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Page 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 Shenandoah: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Shenandoah PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stanley Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Page County

Storms near this place

43 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shenandoah in 43 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindShenandoah1 killedA damaging wind event swept through Page County, Iowa, during the morning of August 10th, 2025. The most severe damage occurred near Shenandoah, where straight-line wind gusts were estimated as high as 95 miles per hour. Tragically, 1 mile north-northwest of Shenandoah, Emergency Management reported an incident that resulted in 1 fatality when a shed at a campsite was overturned, along with significant tree damage and minor structural damage in the area. Further reports of estimated 95 miles per hour gusts in the same vicinity detailed numerous large snapped trees. In addition, an estimated 70 miles per hour gust 1 mile west of Shenandoah was responsible for overturning a semi-truck in a retail parking lot. The storm left a path of destruction across the county, particularly around Shenandoah.
May 2007FloodShenandoah$932,000Heavy rainfall over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th, caused the the East Nishnabotna River to flood around the Shenandoah area. Flood waters inundated 45 trailers and some vehicles near town and caused the closure of Highways 59, 48 and old Highway 2. Most if not all main east to west county roads across the county were closed due to flood waters. See Montgomery county for river levels of the East Nishnabotna River at Red Oak.|Flooding along the East Nishnabotna River, the Nodaway River and other smaller streams caused almost 1 million dollars worth of damage to county roads and bridges.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindShenandoah$30,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 80 mph peeled the roof off the new country club in town.
July 2015Flash FloodShenandoah$10,000Extensive street flooding was reported in Shenadoah, including water flowing across State Highway 48.
April 1999Tornado (F1)Shenandoah$10,000Tornado touched down just northeast of Shenandoah causing minimal damage.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindShenandoah$1,000KMA radio station in Shenandoah reported a 54 mph wind gust and a downed power line.
October 2019Tornado (EFU)Shenandoah-A brief tornado was reported by a storm chaser.
June 2017HailShenandoah-A report from a local radio station of baseball and tea cup size hail had fallen north of Shenandoah.
October 2017Heavy RainShenandoah-This is a 24 hour precipitation ending at 8 am.
June 2017HailShenandoah-Hailstones from this storm ranged from dime sized to golf ball sized.
June 2017HailShenandoah-A trained storm spotter reported ping-pong ball size hail as well as baseball size hail.
March 2016HailShenandoah-The spotter measured hail from nickel to quarter size over a short period of time.
May 2013HailShenandoah-Nickel to quarter-size hail was reported from the same super cell thunderstorm that caused wind damage in the area.
May 2013HailShenandoah-From the same storm that produced hail up to quarter-size and wind damage in the area.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph caused some tree damage and downed a few power lines in town.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed several trees in the Shenandoah area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph blew down at least one tree in Shenandoah.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-The Awos in Shenandoah measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph. The winds blew out some store windows in town and knocked down or split several large trees causing structural and other damage.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 65 mph uprooted and damaged large trees which knocked down power lines and damaged a house in the area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused roof damage to a local Walmart and several other buildings in town, and also downed a few trees and power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed power lines in town.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Thunderstorm gust estimated at 60 mph brought large tree limbs down in Shenandoah.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Barn along Highway 2 destroyed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-Barn destroyed. Pole shed damaged. Car damaged.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
June 2017HailShenandoah-no account filed
June 2017HailShenandoah-no account filed
June 2017HailShenandoah-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
May 2012HailShenandoah-no account filed
June 2011HailShenandoah-no account filed
March 2011HailShenandoah-no account filed
May 2007HailShenandoah-no account filed
April 2007HailShenandoah-no account filed
April 2005HailShenandoah-no account filed
May 2004HailShenandoah-no account filed
April 2002HailShenandoah-no account filed
July 2002HailShenandoah-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindShenandoah-no account filed
May 1996HailShenandoah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Page 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
Bingham4.9 miles10
Essex5.8 miles8
Norwich6.3 miles10
Tarkio City (historical)9.6 miles12
Coin10.7 miles12
Yorktown11.6 miles12
Northboro11.7 miles10
Nyman12.0 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 ShenandoahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q993475The 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 461566. 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.