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.
Population over time
2 figuresHawkeye 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 449 | |
| 2020 | 438 | -11 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Oelwein quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Hawkeye quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | 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
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turner Creek Occurrence | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | Barite | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brockway Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fayette County Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Miller Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Scott Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Hawkeye | $200,000 | Flood 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Hawkeye | $30,000 | A 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 2024 | Flash Flood | Hawkeye | $10,000 | Trained spotters reported flash flooding from near Hawkeye to West Union with numerous roads under water. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Hawkeye. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Hawkeye | $5,000 | Hail did not last long. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | $2,000 | A couple of power lines were blown down in Hawkeye. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Hawkeye | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Hawkeye | - | 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Hawkeye | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Hawkeye | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hawkeye | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hawkeye | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hawkeye | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donnan | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Richfield | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Randalia | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Douglass | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Alpha | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| West Union | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Lucas | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Waucoma | 9.2 miles | 7 |
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 Hawkeye | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932298 | 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 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.






