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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.

Beaconsfield within Ringgold County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Beaconsfield 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.

YearPeople Change
201015
2020150 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2008

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
27 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindBeaconsfield$75,000One inch diameter hail along with damage to house roofs and vehicles.
April 2013HailBeaconsfield$25,000Hail still in ditches the next morning. Siding of houses damaged and plastic on shed damaged with window screens also torn.
July 2008Flash FloodBeaconsfield$25,000Water over County Road J25 due to Lotts Creek between County Highway P64 and County Highway P68 just north of Kellerton.
April 2013Flash FloodBeaconsfield$20,000Water over County Road P64 and also 210th Street north of Highway 2 with roads impassible.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaconsfield$10,000Loss of metal roof material from a farm outbuilding.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBeaconsfield$10,000Several large trees were down by high winds.
July 2001HailBeaconsfield$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailBeaconsfield$2,000no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBeaconsfield$2,000no account filed
May 1996HailBeaconsfield$2,000no account filed
September 2005HailBeaconsfield$1,000no account filed
June 2021Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Coop observer reported 3.46 inches of rain in 24 hours.
July 2021Heavy RainBeaconsfield-A 24 hour rainfall report of 2.62 inches.
September 2019Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.16 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainBeaconsfield-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 2015Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Rainfall of 1.93 inches for the 24 hour period ending at 6:30 AM. End time is based on Radar.
November 2015Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.60 inches over the last 24 hours.
November 2015Tornado (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 2015Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.96 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
April 2014Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 4.15 inches.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaconsfield-Large tree branches of 1 to 3 feet in diameter blown down.
June 2014Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.56 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Rainfall measurement over the past 24 hours was 1.40 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Rainfall 2.68 inches.
July 2008Heavy RainBeaconsfield-Rainfall report of 4.32 inches was received.
April 2013HailBeaconsfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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
Ellston3.8 miles8
Kellerton6.7 miles12
Tingley8.3 miles8
Wanamaker11.6 miles12
Mount Ayr11.7 miles12
Caledonia (historical)14.0 miles12
Knowlton15.0 miles8
Mortimer (historical)15.2 miles8

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 BeaconsfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942884The 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.