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Baldwin, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Monmouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52207. It stands on Beers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Baldwin within Jackson County

On record in Baldwin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Baldwin fell from 109 to 99 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
2010109
202099-10 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

19 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 2007 and 2018, burning about 104 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 July 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1450 50TH AVE, IOWA
14 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Baldwin: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, 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
Maquoketa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownFlagstonePast Producer
Schwenker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Baldwin MinesLeadPast ProducerGalena
Main Baldwin DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Mineral Creek DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
UnknownLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$15,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed, one grain bin, and one silo. Two other silos and a loading chute were also damaged.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$1,000A garage door was blown in.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Large tree branches were blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-A tree was reported down in Baldwin. Time of the event was estimated using radar.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-A trained spotter reported that a building collapsed onto two campers about 3 miles north of Baldwin.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-The public reported windows blown out of a home along Highway 64 and 82nd street.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-no account filed
September 2002HailBaldwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Millrock1.3 miles17
Monmouth2.0 miles17
Nashville3.2 miles17
Buckhorn4.8 miles17
West Iron Hills5.4 miles17
Emeline5.6 miles17
Ozark (historical)6.0 miles17
Ironhills6.0 miles17

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 BaldwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227006The 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 454330. 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.