Lawler, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stapleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52154. The Survey maps it on the Lawler quadrangle. 406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLawler fell from 439 to 406 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 | 439 | |
| 2020 | 406 | -33 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Lawler quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Charles City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lawler between 2010 and 2013, burning about 4 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2580 200TH ST., NEW HAMPTON, IOWA |
| 24 October 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lawler: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Blazek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Busta Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawler in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Hail | Lawler | $50,000 | Crops in approximately 15 sections of land north of Lawler were stripped and destroyed. Also, some window, siding and roof damage was reported. Areas impacted were between State Highway 24 and County Road B33 and a corridor 2 miles west and east of County Road V56. Hail in the entire area was estimated between 1 and 2 inches in diameter. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Lawler | $35,000 | Flood waters covered State Highway 24 northeast of Lawler. Many other roads across Chickasaw County were reported to be under water as well. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lawler | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Lawler | $20,000 | Water covered roads in several locations, including County Road V56 and Vanderbilt Avenue, as well as along 190th Street. In addition, some farmer's dikes were reported washed out. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lawler | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawler | $15,000 | Power lines and trees were downed in Lawler. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lawler | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawler | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Lawler. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lawler | - | Public reported ping-pong ball sized hail near New Hampton. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lawler | - | Crops were damaged by quarter sized hail east of Lawler. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Lawler | - | Locally heavy rain caused numerous washouts on Roanoke Avenue between 200th and 270th Streets in eastern Chickasaw County. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Lawler | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lawler | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lawler | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Little Turkey | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Nansen | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Reilly Settlement | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Boyd | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Fredericksburg | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Bethany Hall | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Saude | 8.8 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 Lawler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q942768 | 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 458247. 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.




