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Conway, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50833. It stands on Ash Branch. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Conway within Taylor County

Population over time

2 figures

Conway fell from 41 to 17 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
201041
202017-24 (-59%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Conway between 2006 and 2020, burning about 68 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
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 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 December 2020Equipment and vehicle use18 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conway in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 9 hail, 5 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 2015Tornado (EF0)Conway$80,000This tornado crossed 3 counties in southern Iowa. This is segment number one in Taylor county. This long track tornado damaged a number of farmsteads along its 22 mile long path. The tornado was at its strongest in NW Ringgold County where EF-1 damage was found. The beginning and end sections of the track were narrow and intermittent. The narrow tornado also clipped the town of Clearfield to the NW early in its life. The tornado crossed into Ringgold county.
June 2010FloodConway$50,000no account filed
March 2009FloodConway$25,000no account filed
September 2010HailConway$20,000no account filed
May 2009FloodConway$10,000no account filed
April 2001HailConway$10,000no account filed
August 2011HailConway$5,000Hail reportedly covering the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindConway$5,000High winds blew a roof off of a shed.
June 2011FloodConway$5,000no account filed
September 2004HailConway$2,000no account filed
July 1995HailConway$2,000no account filed
July 1995HailConway$1,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindConway-Emergency manager relayed a report of a 50 foot pine tree knocked over. Event was described as a burst of wind with other objects blown across the yard. Time estimated via radar.
June 2015HailConway-no account filed
October 2008FloodConway-no account filed
August 2004HailConway-no account filed
October 2001HailConway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Merle Junction2.7 miles8
Sharpsburg3.9 miles8
Gravity6.7 miles8
Bedford7.8 miles12
Platteville8.2 miles12
Clearfield8.4 miles8
Ladoga9.4 miles11
Lenox9.7 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 ConwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934037The 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 455582. 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.