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Bronson, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Floyd Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51007. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawton quadrangle. 294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Bronson within Woodbury County

Population over time

2 figures

Bronson fell from 322 to 294 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
2010322
2020294-28 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bronson between 2008 and 2014, burning about 228 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1900 OLD HWY 141 BRONSON, IA 51007, IA
21 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1750 EMMETT AVE, BRONSON, IA, IA
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1637 170TH ST., SGT. BLUFF, IA
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2163 220TH ST., BRONSON, IA
6 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronson in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Bronson$500,000The tornado spun up two miles northeast of Bronson along 190th Street, around one mile west of the intersection with Emmett Ave, where it ripped a portion of the roof off a single family home and damaged an outbuilding, with debris sent 100 yards to the north into a field. The tornado continued northeast across open fields until it hit two large metal utility transmission towers, and deposited the electric lines across U.S. Highway 20, resulting in the closure of U.S. Highway 20 east of Lawton for two days. The tornado crossed U.S. Highway 20 less than a mile east of Lawton, then made a more northward turn. As the tornado approached Fayette Avenue, it impacted multiple farmsteads with damage to a few barns and sheds, as well as broken and snapped tree limbs. A machine shed at one farmstead was completely destroyed along with a concrete silo and lean-to shed. Multiple power poles were snapped along 140th Street. Minor damage was also noted to shingles on a couple single family homes.|The tornado eventually lifted near the intersection of 110th Street and Fayette Avenue. The average path width was 75 yards and the maximum estimated wind speed was 130 mph. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 1999HailBronson$500,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBronson$25,000Roofing material on several hoop barns was damaged. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBronson$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew down numerous power poles and lines.
July 2006Tornado (F0)Bronson$5,000A brief tornado destroyed one outbuilding, damaged another outbuilding, and scattered fence posts.
April 2025HailBronson-Hail varied from pea to nickel size.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBronson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBronson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 8 inch diameter branches blown down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBronson-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds also moved lawn furniture and large flower pots.
June 2020HailBronson-no account filed
June 2020HailBronson-no account filed
June 2017HailBronson-no account filed
August 2015HailBronson-no account filed
April 2011HailBronson-no account filed
March 2006HailBronson-no account filed
July 2006HailBronson-no account filed
June 2005HailBronson-no account filed
May 2004HailBronson-no account filed
August 2004HailBronson-no account filed
June 2003HailBronson-no account filed
June 2003HailBronson-no account filed
August 2002HailBronson-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBronson-no account filed
May 2000HailBronson-no account filed
July 1995HailBronson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Lawton4.9 miles9
Luton5.0 miles9
Glen Ellen5.7 miles12
Sergeant Bluff7.7 miles12
Estates West8.0 miles12
Salix8.1 miles11
Climbing Hill8.6 miles9
Morningside8.7 miles12

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 BronsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933856The 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 454840. 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.