Fort Madison, Iowa
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52627. It stands on French Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Madison quadrangle. 10,270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Madison
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 12 of 17 shown
Albright Houselisted 1978
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Complex Historic Districtlisted 1992
Chief Justice Joseph M. Beck Houselisted 1988
Cattermole Memorial Librarylisted 1984
Faeth Farmstead and Orchard Districtlisted 2005
Fort Madison Bridgelisted 1999
Fort Madison Downtown Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2007
Fort Madison High Schoollisted 2015
Lee County Courthouselisted 1976
Daniel McConn Barnlisted 2000
Moyce-Steffens Houselisted 1997
Park-to-Park Residential Historic Districtlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresFort Madison fell from 11,051 to 10,270 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 | 11,051 | |
| 2020 | 10,270 | -781 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1936 USGS Fort Madison quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Fort Madison quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fort Madison between 2018 and 2020, burning about 62 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Madison: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brockman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Madison in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Madison | $50,000 | A renegade area of thunderstorms moved across southeast and east-central Iowa. One storm passed over the Montrose area, hail of about an inch diameter fell. Hail of three-quarters of an inch in diameter was also reported in West Point. Hail also pelted Earlville and New Vienna. Reports of several cars being damaged by hail were received from Earlville. High winds caused a building to collapse in Fort Madison. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Madison | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Madison | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Fort Madison | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit (historical) | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bullard (historical) | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sawyer | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Viele | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Jeffersonville (historical) | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Wever | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Denmark | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| Bricker (historical) | 8.3 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 Fort Madison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q986316 | 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 456689. 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.






