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Stanton, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51573. The Survey maps it on the Stanton quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Stanton within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Stanton fell from 689 to 678 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
2010689
2020678-11 (-2%)

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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Stanton between 2006 and 2009, burning about 24 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/undetermined5

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
11 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanton in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
July 1995HailStanton$30,000Severe crop damaged was reported as golf ball-size hail pelted the area. Two funnel clouds were also sighted.
May 2011Flash FloodStanton$1,000Persistent heavy rain producing thunderstorms caused flash flooding along the Tarkio River near Stanton. The flooding crossed Nature Avenue just north of Highway 34. A cooperative observer in the area reported that a little over 3 inches of rain fell in a 4 hour period during this time.
May 2023HailStanton-Public reported 1-inch hail.
May 2023HailStanton-Public reported 1-inch hail via mPing.
September 2022HailStanton-Public reported 1-inch hail 3 miles southeast of Red Oak.
September 2022HailStanton-Public reported 1.75-inch hail.
September 2022HailStanton-Emergency Manager reported 1.75-inch hail.
September 2022HailStanton-Public reported 2.5-inch hail.
March 2020HailStanton-A trained spotter reported 1.75 inch hail.
March 2020HailStanton-Storm chaser sent image of 3 inch hail that fell near Stanton.
March 2020HailStanton-A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
May 2019Flash FloodStanton-Water over Nature Avenue between Highway 34 and 220th street west of Stanton.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton-Power lines were blown down by damaging thunderstorm winds 2 1/2 miles northwest of Stanton.
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Stanton-The tornado impact two farmsteads along the path. At the first farm outbuildings were destroyed including a large recently build machine shed. Tree damage was also observed at this location as well. The tornado then traveled north northeast crossing State Highway 34 where additional tree damage was observed. The tornado then impacted the second farmstead where additional outbuilding damage was observed.
May 2011Heavy RainStanton-The cooperative observer in Stanton reported that 3.20 inches of rain fell in a 4 hour period. The heavy rain produced flash flooding along the Tarkio River near town and also produced flooding along the Nodaway River near there as well a little later.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStanton-Hail up to baseball-size was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph around the Stanton area. Some crops north of Stanton were destroyed and vehicle and home damage was noted across the area.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph caused damage to outbuildings, grain bins and trees around the Viking Lake area. This damage could have either been associated with the tornado that a NWS storm survey determined to have touched down northeast of the lake, or from rear-flank downdraft winds from the storm.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked down 4 to 6 inch in diameter tree limbs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorms winds were estimated to have reached at least 60 mph by a trained spotter. The winds knocked some rotted trees down and were accompanied by pea-size hail.
May 2007HailStanton-Hail around 3/4 inches in diameter was reported from just north through northeast of Stanton.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Stanton-A tornado that was on the ground for nearly 8 miles caused damage to farm outbuildings and trees along its path.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew down several trees in town which blocked roads.
June 2017HailStanton-no account filed
June 2011HailStanton-no account filed
March 2009HailStanton-no account filed
June 2008HailStanton-no account filed
June 2006HailStanton-no account filed
September 2001HailStanton-no account filed
July 1995HailStanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Frankfort (historical)3.9 miles9
Wallin6.0 miles9
Tenville6.2 miles9
Clarinda Junction (historical)6.4 miles8
Red Oak6.7 miles9
Biddick (historical)6.8 miles9
Sciola7.2 miles9
Villisca7.7 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 StantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981063The 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 461955. 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.

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.