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.
Population over time
2 figuresEdgewood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 864 | |
| 2020 | 909 | +45 (+5%) |
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.
- 1902 USGS Elkader quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Edgewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Edgewood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Harris Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kuhlman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wilcox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
36 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | $150,000 | Wind 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 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | $120,000 | Strong winds were also reported. |
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Edgewood | $40,000 | A 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | $25,000 | A 50 x 80 foot pole barn was blown down and destroyed by a severe thunderstorm wind gust. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Edgewood | $20,000 | Law enforcement officials reported water over roads in the south end of the county. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Edgewood | $15,000 | Law enforcement officials reported water over sections of Highway 3 in the southern end of the county and around Edgewood. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Edgewood | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Edgewood | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | $5,000 | Tree limbs were also reported down. |
| October 2007 | Flash Flood | Edgewood | $5,000 | Flash 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 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in Edgewood. |
| October 2007 | Flash Flood | Edgewood | $3,000 | Bear creek flash flooded over Faucet Road. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Edgewood | $2,500 | Fire department reported quarter size hail and 50 mph winds. |
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Edgewood | $2,000 | Runoff from locally heavy rains pushed Rabbit Creek out of its banks near Edgewood with the flood waters covering Glacier Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down in Edgewood. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Edgewood | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Edgewood | $750 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | A 73 mph wind gust was measured south of Littleport. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | An estimated 73 mph wind gust occurred in Edgewood. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | A 70 mph wind gust occurred in Edgewood. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Edgewood | - | In Edgewood, 3.5 inches of rain fell. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Edgewood | - | In Edgewood, 4.5 inches of rain fell. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Edgewood | - | The emergency manager and law enforcement officials reported hail ranging in size from pea up to nickel. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Edgewood | - | The Edgewood Fire Department reported that Bear Creek had rose out of its banks and caused minor flooding. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Edgewood | - | Trained spotters estimated penny size hail near Edgewood. |
| October 2007 | Heavy Rain | Edgewood | - | A total of 5.21 inches of rain fell between 2:00 p.m. CST and 6:40 p.m. CST. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Edgewood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Strawberry Point | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Littleport | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mederville | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Updegraff | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Elkport | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Garber | 10.0 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Sebald | 10.0 miles | 12 |
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 Edgewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933442 | 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 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.






