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.
Population over time
2 figuresConway 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 17 | -24 (-59%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Conway quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 December 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Conway | $80,000 | This 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 2010 | Flood | Conway | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Flood | Conway | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Conway | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Flood | Conway | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Conway | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Conway | $5,000 | Hail reportedly covering the ground. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conway | $5,000 | High winds blew a roof off of a shed. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Conway | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Conway | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Conway | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Conway | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conway | - | 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 2015 | Hail | Conway | - | no account filed |
| October 2008 | Flood | Conway | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Conway | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Conway | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merle Junction | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sharpsburg | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Gravity | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Bedford | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Platteville | 8.2 miles | 12 | |
| Clearfield | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Ladoga | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Lenox | 9.7 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 Conway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1934037 | 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 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.






