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Iatan, Missouri

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64098. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Iatan within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Iatan fell from 45 to 39 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
201045
202039-6 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 46 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

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Iatan between 2014 and 2018, burning about 852 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 April 2018Arson/incendiarism667 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176765-00000-04172018-1710
7 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County42
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAtchison County170216
4 March 2017Fireworksunder an acreAtchison County170208
21 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service51
26 January 2014Debris and open burning180 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 January 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Iatan: 16 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bramble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iatan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Rose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Teaney-Brumley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iatan in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindIatan-Downed wires near Route 273.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindIatan-Measured 72 mph wind gust west of Dearborn.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindIatan-Emergency management reported 60 mph winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIatan-Trees were blown down onto Highway 45.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindIatan-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
March 2012HailIatan-no account filed
March 2009HailIatan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Bean Lake Station1.9 miles26
Dye2.9 miles46
Sugar Lake3.2 miles32
Sadler3.3 miles46
Weston6.2 miles46
Woodruff9.1 miles44
West Platte9.6 miles44
Beverly9.6 miles46

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 IatanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295925The 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 720068. 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.