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Edgewood, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 52042. The Survey maps it on the Edgewood quadrangle. 909 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Edgewood within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgewood grew from 864 to 909 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
2010864
2020909+45 (+5%)

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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 2006 and 2015, burning about 20 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 burning3
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
4 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Edgewood: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edgewood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harris QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kuhlman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wilcox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

36 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 36 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. 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
July 2009HailEdgewood$150,000Wind gusts were measured at 40 mph in town. Hail broke windows in town and caused considerable damage to crops. Rainfall totaled 0.47 inches.
July 2009HailEdgewood$120,000Strong winds were also reported.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Edgewood$40,000A tornado, that originally started in Delaware County, Iowa, moved into Clayton County east of Edgewood, and continued northward toward Garber before lifting. This tornado hit a farm and destroyed a machine shed and snapped off trees. Debris was blown into a nearby field, which included boards being stabbed into the ground.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$25,000A 50 x 80 foot pole barn was blown down and destroyed by a severe thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2008FloodEdgewood$20,000Law enforcement officials reported water over roads in the south end of the county.
May 2008FloodEdgewood$15,000Law enforcement officials reported water over sections of Highway 3 in the southern end of the county and around Edgewood.
July 2009Flash FloodEdgewood$15,000no account filed
May 2001Tornado (F0)Edgewood$10,000no account filed
July 2009HailEdgewood$5,000Tree limbs were also reported down.
October 2007Flash FloodEdgewood$5,000Flash flooding was observed over the intersection of Highway 3 and Highway C7X. Highway C7X between Garber and Edgewood had water over it as well.
July 2009HailEdgewood$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Edgewood.
October 2007Flash FloodEdgewood$3,000Bear creek flash flooded over Faucet Road.
May 2008HailEdgewood$2,500Fire department reported quarter size hail and 50 mph winds.
October 2019Flash FloodEdgewood$2,000Runoff from locally heavy rains pushed Rabbit Creek out of its banks near Edgewood with the flood waters covering Glacier Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$2,000A few trees were blown down in Edgewood.
July 2009HailEdgewood$2,000no account filed
April 2006HailEdgewood$1,000no account filed
April 2006HailEdgewood$750no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A 73 mph wind gust was measured south of Littleport.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-An estimated 73 mph wind gust occurred in Edgewood.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A 70 mph wind gust occurred in Edgewood.
June 2013Heavy RainEdgewood-In Edgewood, 3.5 inches of rain fell.
May 2013Heavy RainEdgewood-In Edgewood, 4.5 inches of rain fell.
May 2010HailEdgewood-The emergency manager and law enforcement officials reported hail ranging in size from pea up to nickel.
July 2010FloodEdgewood-The Edgewood Fire Department reported that Bear Creek had rose out of its banks and caused minor flooding.
May 2008HailEdgewood-Trained spotters estimated penny size hail near Edgewood.
October 2007Heavy RainEdgewood-A total of 5.21 inches of rain fell between 2:00 p.m. CST and 6:40 p.m. CST.
May 2013HailEdgewood-no account filed
February 2009HailEdgewood-no account filed
May 2008HailEdgewood-no account filed
July 2008HailEdgewood-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-no account filed
June 2002HailEdgewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Wood3.7 miles12
Strawberry Point7.5 miles12
Littleport7.8 miles12
Mederville8.3 miles12
Updegraff9.1 miles13
Elkport9.3 miles12
Garber10.0 miles12
Saint Sebald10.0 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 EdgewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933442The 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 456235. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.