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Hawkeye, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52147. The Survey maps it on the Hawkeye quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Hawkeye within Fayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Hawkeye fell from 449 to 438 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
2010449
2020438-11 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hawkeye between 2009 and 2017, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined1
Natural1

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
3 June 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2012Debris and open burning3.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2015Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2015Debris and open burning18 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Hawkeye: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Turner Creek OccurrenceBarium-BaritePast ProducerBarite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brockway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fayette County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawkeye in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2016Flash FloodHawkeye$200,000Flood waters from Crane Creek covered U.S. Highway 18 northeast of Hawkeye and the streets were flooded in Hawkeye. Numerous roads between West Union and Sumner had water over them.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHawkeye$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHawkeye$50,000no account filed
May 2012Tornado (EF1)Hawkeye$30,000A brief tornado, along a line of storms, damaged numerous barns, grain buildings, outbuildings, and some homes along and just northeast of U.S. Highway 18 north of Hawkeye, IA. Most of the damage was EF0 but peak wind speeds and described damage briefly reached EF1.
June 2024Flash FloodHawkeye$10,000Trained spotters reported flash flooding from near Hawkeye to West Union with numerous roads under water.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHawkeye$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Hawkeye.
July 2007HailHawkeye$5,000Hail did not last long.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHawkeye$2,000A couple of power lines were blown down in Hawkeye.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHawkeye$1,000no account filed
July 1994Tornado (F0)Hawkeye$500no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodHawkeye-Runoff from heavy rain pushed a small stream out of its banks west of Randalia. This caused T Avenue between 160th Street and State Highway 93, to be closed due to the flooding.
June 2014Flash FloodHawkeye-Runoff from heavy rains caused a small creek north of Hawkeye to rise quickly sending flood waters over U.S. Highway 18. The road was closed until the flood waters receded.
April 2022HailHawkeye-no account filed
June 2006HailHawkeye-no account filed
May 2003HailHawkeye-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHawkeye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Donnan4.8 miles12
Richfield6.0 miles9
Randalia6.2 miles12
Douglass6.4 miles11
Alpha6.5 miles9
West Union7.7 miles12
Saint Lucas8.9 miles11
Waucoma9.2 miles7

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 HawkeyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932298The 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 457327. 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.