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Ackworth, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50001. The Survey maps it on the Milo quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Ackworth within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

Ackworth grew from 83 to 115 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
201083
2020115+32 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ackworth between 2014 and 2017, burning about 29 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 burning2

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
7 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ackworth in 17 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Ackworth$50,000Posts on social media indicated damage to the south and east of Ackworth. Damage began near the intersection of 168th Avenue and Kennedy Street where an outbuilding was compromised. The tornado then remained in open fields for much of the remainder of the path but did damage trees at the intersection of Highway 92 and S23 before dissipating.
March 2008FloodAckworth$30,000Water was reported over Highway 92 due to the South River overflow at Ackworth.
March 2008FloodAckworth$30,000The South River was over County Highway S23 southeast of Ackworth.
July 2010Flash FloodAckworth$25,000One to two feet of flowing water over Highway S23 north of Highway 92.
May 2007FloodAckworth$25,000no account filed
July 2001HailAckworth$15,000no account filed
June 2014HailAckworth$5,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAckworth-Four spotters reported 60 mph wind gusts from Ackworth to Martensdale.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAckworth-Emergency manager reported power lines down. Highway 92 blocked with a large tree on the highway. Time and location of occurrence estimated from radar.
July 2024Heavy RainAckworth-A personal weather station reported 4.75 inches of rain since midnight.
June 2021HailAckworth-Ping pong ball sized hail along highway 92 east of Indianola. Time estimated via radar.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAckworth-Public reported tree damage, wind speeds unknown at the time. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016Heavy RainAckworth-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 2.66 inches.
September 2014Heavy RainAckworth-Total rainfall in the last three hours was 2.63 inches.
September 2014Heavy RainAckworth-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 4.72 inches.
June 2014HailAckworth-no account filed
May 2004HailAckworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Clarkson (historical)2.5 miles9
Hammondsburgh (historical)4.1 miles9
Greenbush (historical)4.2 miles9
Indianola4.5 miles11
Sandyville4.6 miles9
Palmyra5.1 miles9
Milo5.4 miles9
Summerset5.9 miles11

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 AckworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q341940The 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 454086. 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.