BlockBefore

Irena, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fletchall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64456. The Survey maps it on the Blockton quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Irena within Worth County

Population over time

2 figures

Irena fell from 18 to 14 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
201018
202014-4 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Irena between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,202 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined820 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning200 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2002Debris and open burning70 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 2002Debris and open burning28 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth 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 Irena: 2 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irena in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2025Flash FloodIrena-Flash flooding across eastern portions of Worth County due to widespread 6 plus inches of rain.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Irena-NWS Des Moines storm survey found evidence of a EF-0 tornado beginning just northwest of Irena, tracking to the north northeast before crossing the Iowa border near US 169 and continuing into WFO Des Moines' area.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Grant City4.4 miles12
Mount Waller5.5 miles12
Isadora6.9 miles12
Allendale7.0 miles12
Adams (historical)7.6 miles13
Iona City (historical)8.0 miles12
Prohibition City8.8 miles12
Worth10.4 miles12

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 IrenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q268176The 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 740956. 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.