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.
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
Epworth Schoollisted 2004- Zephaniah Kidder Houselisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresEpworth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,860 | |
| 2020 | 2,023 | +163 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1901 USGS Peosta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Epworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque South quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2014 | 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
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roadcut | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Koopman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mauser Farm | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | 1 hurt, $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | 1 hurt, $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph overturned a mobile home and uprooted several large trees in Epworth, IA around 100 pm August 9. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | $50,000 | Tree down blocking Old Highway Rd |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | $3,000 | Trees down |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Epworth | - | A reported of a mainly quarter to half dollar sized hail with some up to the size of golf balls. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epworth | - | Public reported branches blown down. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Epworth | - | The county emergency manager reported penny sized hail. |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Epworth | - | Emergency management reported the Little Maquoketa River out of its banks and over portions of Millville Road. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Epworth | - | Golf ball-sized hail fell in Epworth, IA around 101 pm August 9. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Epworth | - | Emergency manager measured hail the size of quarters. |
| June 1999 | Flood | Epworth | - | Street flooding. |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Epworth | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidder | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lattnerville | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Farley | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Peosta | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Graf | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bankston | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Centralia | 5.4 miles | 15 |
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 Epworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q994950 | 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 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.






