Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Camanche, IA

Camanche (pronounced kuh-MANCH) is a city in Clinton County, Iowa, located directly on the Mississippi River just south of the city of Clinton.

Camanche was founded by Dr. George Peck, a land prospector from New York who came west in 1836, platted the town in the late 1830s, and is buried in the city's Rose Hill Cemetery.

The community was named after the Comanche Native American tribe, with the spelling rendered as Camanche.

A post office has been in operation in Camanche since 1837, and the community was one of the original precincts of Clinton County when the county was organized.

On Sunday, June 3, 1860, an F4 tornado struck Camanche, leaving few buildings standing; the tornado killed 92 people in total, including at least 41 in Camanche, and the wider outbreak injured more than 300 people.

During the 1860 tornado, a raft carrying 26 men on the Mississippi River outside Camanche was hit by the storm, and only three of the men on board survived.

The population of Camanche was 4,570 at the 2020 census.

Camanche has about 1,952 households, and its median age of 44.9 years reflects its character as a quiet, mostly residential river town.

Camanche shrank to just 610 residents by 1920, then boomed after World War II — from 1,212 people in 1950 to a peak of 4,725 in 1980 — as it became a bedroom community for people working in Clinton and the Quad Cities.

All three of the Camanche Community School District's schools — Camanche Elementary School, Camanche Middle School, and Camanche High School — are located in the city.