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.
Population over time
2 figuresInwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 814 | |
| 2020 | 928 | +114 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Inwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2020 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2264 ASHLEY, INWOOD, IOWA |
| 15 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Maudlin | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
30 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Lightning | Inwood | $100,000 | Lightning started a fire on the lower level of a house which spread and destroyed the house and most of its contents. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Inwood | $50,000 | A tornado destroyed a shed, damaged a car, tore the back off a garage, and moved a house slightly from its foundation. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a hog confinement building under construction, and blew a storage shed onto a road. The winds also caused widespread tree damage. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a shed and damaged a garage. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Inwood | $10,000 | A 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | $1,000 | A tree was snapped several feet above the ground. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Inwood | - | Hail was mainly pea sized, with several stones as large as a ping-pong ball. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Inwood | - | Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated up to 55 mph. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Inwood | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of basements and roads. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Inwood | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of local roads. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Inwood | - | Large hail destoyed a soybean crop. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Inwood | - | A brief tornado observed by sheriff's office personnel resulted in no reported damage. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Inwood | - | A brief tornado observed by sheriff's office personnel resulted in no reported damage. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Inwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Inwood | - | 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 Inwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q520620 | 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 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.



