Hansell, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ingham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50441. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hansell quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHansell fell from 98 to 82 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 | 98 | |
| 2020 | 82 | -16 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Hansell quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hansell in 2006, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hansell: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heitland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Geneva Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Koch Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hansell in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | $75,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | $75,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | $25,000 | Winds from a decaying thunderstorms blew a tree onto a house. A porch was also damaged by the high winds. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hansell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hansell | $5,000 | Public reported and shared a picture of ping pong ball sized hail onto our Facebook page. This is a delayed report and time is estimated by radar. Report from social media. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hansell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Hansell | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Hansell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Hansell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Hansell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hansell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Hansell | - | Relayed via social media. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hansell | - | Wind gust measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Hansell | - | Trained spotter reported hail, with largest stones being quarter sized. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Hansell | - | Delayed report that was time estimated from radar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Hansell | - | Public reported up to 2 inch size hail. |
| August 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Hansell | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Hansell | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Hansell | - | 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.
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 Hansell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931984 | 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 457236. 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.



