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Crawfordsville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52621. The Survey maps it on the Crawfordsville quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Crawfordsville within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Crawfordsville grew from 264 to 277 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
2010264
2020277+13 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crawfordsville in 2017, burning about 40 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
Debris and open burning2

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
4 March 2017Debris and open burning22 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2017Debris and open burning18 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawfordsville in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026HailCrawfordsville-Storm chaser reported large hail. The time was estimated from radar data.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCrawfordsville-Measured by wind equipement. Time estimated from radar information.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCrawfordsville-Media reported very strong winds.
May 2014HailCrawfordsville-Quarter sized hail fell about 3 miles south of Crawfordsville, IA near the Henry County line at 510 pm CDT May 12.
May 2014HailCrawfordsville-Half dollar sized hail fell in Crawfordsville, IA around 518 pm CDT May 12.
May 2012HailCrawfordsville-A person from the public reported ping pong ball sized hail. Time was estimated from radar.
April 2003HailCrawfordsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Havre4.7 miles7
Ainsworth5.2 miles7
Noble5.5 miles7
Haskins7.8 miles7
Eureka (historical)9.4 miles7
Washington10.1 miles7
Titu14.1 miles7
Brighton15.2 miles7

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 CrawfordsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913886The 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 455707. 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.