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Inwood, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51240. The Survey maps it on the Inwood quadrangle. 928 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.

Inwood within Lyon County

Population over time

2 figures

Inwood grew from 814 to 928 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
2010814
2020928+114 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Inwood between 2006 and 2020, burning about 102 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2020Smoking3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2264 ASHLEY, INWOOD, IOWA
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Inwood: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-MaudlinSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inwood in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
March 2011LightningInwood$100,000Lightning started a fire on the lower level of a house which spread and destroyed the house and most of its contents.
April 2004Tornado (F1)Inwood$50,000A tornado destroyed a shed, damaged a car, tore the back off a garage, and moved a house slightly from its foundation.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindInwood$30,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a hog confinement building under construction, and blew a storage shed onto a road. The winds also caused widespread tree damage.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindInwood$20,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a shed and damaged a garage.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Inwood$10,000A tornado that crossed from Sioux County damaged a barbed wire fence, damaged or destroyed at least three outbuildings, caused minor damage to a home, and blew out or flattened corn stubble.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindInwood$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInwood$5,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindInwood$1,000A tree was snapped several feet above the ground. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
August 2021HailInwood-Hail was mainly pea sized, with several stones as large as a ping-pong ball.
May 2012HailInwood-Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated up to 55 mph.
July 2010Flash FloodInwood-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of basements and roads.
June 2005Flash FloodInwood-Heavy rain caused flooding of local roads.
May 2000HailInwood-Large hail destoyed a soybean crop. The amount of damage was not known.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Inwood-A brief tornado observed by sheriff's office personnel resulted in no reported damage.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Inwood-A brief tornado observed by sheriff's office personnel resulted in no reported damage.
April 2025HailInwood-no account filed
June 2014HailInwood-no account filed
May 2012HailInwood-no account filed
June 2011HailInwood-no account filed
July 2009HailInwood-no account filed
July 2005HailInwood-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindInwood-no account filed
August 2002HailInwood-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindInwood-no account filed
June 2001HailInwood-no account filed
June 2001HailInwood-no account filed
August 2000HailInwood-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindInwood-no account filed
August 2000HailInwood-no account filed
August 2000HailInwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Klondike7.3 miles10
Alvord7.3 miles7
Beloit7.8 miles11
Larchwood10.1 miles7
Doon10.7 miles7
Lester10.8 miles7
Granite13.0 miles10
Lakewood Corner13.8 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 InwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q520620The 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 457821. 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.