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Keswick, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50136. The Survey maps it on the Keswick quadrangle. 242 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Keswick within Keokuk County

Population over time

2 figures

Keswick fell from 246 to 242 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
2010246
2020242-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Keswick between 2009 and 2017, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keokuk 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 Keswick: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Just QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Keswick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keswick in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKeswick$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindKeswick$500no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKeswick-A trained spotter reported a large oak tree snapped near the base. The tree was about 30 inches in diameter. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
February 2017HailKeswick-Emergency management reported quarter size hail.
April 2017HailKeswick-This report was relayed by local broadcast media (KCRG). Time of the event was estimated using radar.
May 2013Flash FloodKeswick-Trained spotter reported very heavy rains with creeks out of their banks and flash flooding occurring.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKeswick-Wind gusts estimated to be 55 to 65 mph blew down some 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs about 4 miles east of What Cheer, IA at 703 pm June 18.
September 2001HailKeswick-1 inch hail reported by law enforement.

Every storm recorded in Keokuk 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
Aurora3.0 miles7
Webster3.9 miles7
Thornburg5.1 miles7
Jamestown6.3 miles7
What Cheer7.1 miles7
Rosetta (historical)7.2 miles7
Vulcan (historical)7.3 miles7
South English7.9 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 KeswickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q594708The 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 458061. 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.