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.
Population over time
2 figuresAckworth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 83 | |
| 2020 | 115 | +32 (+39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Milo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Milo quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2014Regional 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 burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Ackworth | $50,000 | Posts 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 2008 | Flood | Ackworth | $30,000 | Water was reported over Highway 92 due to the South River overflow at Ackworth. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Ackworth | $30,000 | The South River was over County Highway S23 southeast of Ackworth. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Ackworth | $25,000 | One to two feet of flowing water over Highway S23 north of Highway 92. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Ackworth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ackworth | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ackworth | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ackworth | - | Four spotters reported 60 mph wind gusts from Ackworth to Martensdale. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ackworth | - | 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 2024 | Heavy Rain | Ackworth | - | A personal weather station reported 4.75 inches of rain since midnight. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Ackworth | - | Ping pong ball sized hail along highway 92 east of Indianola. Time estimated via radar. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ackworth | - | Public reported tree damage, wind speeds unknown at the time. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Ackworth | - | Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 2.66 inches. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Ackworth | - | Total rainfall in the last three hours was 2.63 inches. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Ackworth | - | Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 4.72 inches. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ackworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ackworth | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkson (historical) | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Hammondsburgh (historical) | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Greenbush (historical) | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Indianola | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sandyville | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Palmyra | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Milo | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Summerset | 5.9 miles | 11 |
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 Ackworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q341940 | The 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.






