BlockLincoln, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50652. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLincoln fell from 162 to 121 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 | 162 | |
| 2020 | 121 | -41 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Lincoln | $200,000 | Multiple secondary roads closed in Tama County due to flooding. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lincoln | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | $2,000 | Two foot diameter trees snapped. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lincoln | $2,000 | Dime to quarter size hail reported. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lincoln | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | - | A 68 mph gust at a Personal Weather Station. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln | - | Wind gust measured by a personal weather station. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Lincoln | - | Iowa DOT reported water covering one lane of US Highway 63 south of Tama. Traffic was still getting by at the time, but was being flagged due to the single lane restriction. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Lincoln | - | Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lincoln | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via social media. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lincoln | - | Public reported quarter sized hail along with estimated winds of 40 to 50 mph. |
| July 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Lincoln | - | This tornado moved into Tama county from Grundy county. It remained in agricultural fields doing only crop damage. This is the second and final segment. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Lincoln | - | Spotter reported 2 inches of rain in 45 minutes in Lincoln. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Lincoln | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Lincoln | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladbrook | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Dinsdale | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Garwin | 11.7 miles | 9 | |
| Buckingham (historical) | 11.8 miles | 9 | |
| Traer | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Buckingham | 12.9 miles | 10 | |
| West Union (historical) | 13.9 miles | 9 | |
| Toledo | 19.4 miles | 8 |
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 Lincoln | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930098 | 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 458352. 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.
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.