Beaconsfield, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50074. The Survey maps it on the Ellston quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.
On record in Beaconsfield
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 1 record
Beaconsfield Supply Storelisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresBeaconsfield grew from 15 to 15 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 | 15 | |
| 2020 | 15 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Ellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beaconsfield in 2008, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaconsfield in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 13 heavy rain, 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaconsfield | $75,000 | One inch diameter hail along with damage to house roofs and vehicles. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Beaconsfield | $25,000 | Hail still in ditches the next morning. Siding of houses damaged and plastic on shed damaged with window screens also torn. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Beaconsfield | $25,000 | Water over County Road J25 due to Lotts Creek between County Highway P64 and County Highway P68 just north of Kellerton. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Beaconsfield | $20,000 | Water over County Road P64 and also 210th Street north of Highway 2 with roads impassible. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaconsfield | $10,000 | Loss of metal roof material from a farm outbuilding. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaconsfield | $10,000 | Several large trees were down by high winds. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Beaconsfield | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Beaconsfield | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaconsfield | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Beaconsfield | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Beaconsfield | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer reported 3.46 inches of rain in 24 hours. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | A 24 hour rainfall report of 2.62 inches. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.16 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.65 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Rainfall of 1.93 inches for the 24 hour period ending at 6:30 AM. End time is based on Radar. |
| November 2015 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.60 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Beaconsfield | - | Survey determined tornado started in rural areas of eastern Ringgold county and produced tree damage before leaving the county. Tornado moved into Decatur county. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.96 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far. |
| April 2014 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Storm total rainfall for the two days was 4.15 inches. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaconsfield | - | Large tree branches of 1 to 3 feet in diameter blown down. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.56 inches. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Rainfall measurement over the past 24 hours was 1.40 inches. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Rainfall 2.68 inches. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Beaconsfield | - | Rainfall report of 4.32 inches was received. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Beaconsfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellston | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Kellerton | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Tingley | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wanamaker | 11.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Ayr | 11.7 miles | 12 | |
| Caledonia (historical) | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Knowlton | 15.0 miles | 8 | |
| Mortimer (historical) | 15.2 miles | 8 |
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 Beaconsfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942884 | 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 454399. 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.




