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Epworth, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52045. The Survey maps it on the Epworth quadrangle. 2,023 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Epworth within Dubuque County

On record in Epworth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Epworth grew from 1,860 to 2,023 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
20101,860
20202,023+163 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Epworth between 2009 and 2018, burning about 69 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking1

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
19 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Epworth: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Koopman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mauser FarmStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epworth in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 1996Thunderstorm WindEpworth1 hurt, $20,000no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindEpworth1 hurt, $20,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEpworth$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph overturned a mobile home and uprooted several large trees in Epworth, IA around 100 pm August 9.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEpworth$50,000Tree down blocking Old Highway Rd
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEpworth$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEpworth$3,000Trees down
September 2000Thunderstorm WindEpworth$2,000no account filed
March 2026HailEpworth-A reported of a mainly quarter to half dollar sized hail with some up to the size of golf balls.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEpworth-Public reported branches blown down.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Epworth-The tornado began a path of damage through mainly mature corn, where it move through fields and through one section of timber, where it caused branch damage and topped out one tree. A farmer witnessed the tornado, seeing swirling debris. The peak winds estimated with this EF0 tornado were 74 mph. Dubuque County EMA provided all information for this survey.
May 2018HailEpworth-The county emergency manager reported penny sized hail.
October 2018Flash FloodEpworth-Emergency management reported the Little Maquoketa River out of its banks and over portions of Millville Road.
August 2009HailEpworth-Golf ball-sized hail fell in Epworth, IA around 101 pm August 9.
March 2007HailEpworth-Emergency manager measured hail the size of quarters.
June 1999FloodEpworth-Street flooding.
June 1996Tornado (F0)Epworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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
Kidder1.3 miles14
Lattnerville3.8 miles14
Pleasant Grove3.8 miles14
Farley3.9 miles12
Peosta4.3 miles15
Graf4.6 miles15
Bankston5.3 miles15
Centralia5.4 miles15

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 EpworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994950The 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 456385. 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.