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Lowell, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Baltimore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52645. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowell quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Lowell within Henry County

On record in Lowell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lowell between 2012 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lowell: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Renner QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Schroeder QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Beattie QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 4 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
April 2020HailLowell-Hail ranged from dime to golf ball sized.
February 2017HailLowell-A public report of 1.5 inch diameter hail was received through social media.
June 2012HailLowell-Quarter sized hail fell 5 miles west northwest of Lowell, IA at 242 pm CDT June 16.
June 2008HailLowell-Quarter-sized hail fell in Lowell, IA at 6:29 pm June 12. Winds between 30 and 40 mph and heavy rain was also observed.
June 2007Flash FloodLowell-Water ponded 6 to 8 inches deep on roads in some spots.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Baltimore (historical)2.1 miles11
New London6.7 miles11
Salem9.8 miles11
Mount Pleasant11.1 miles11
Denova (historical)11.8 miles11
Oakland Mills11.9 miles11
Westwood13.5 miles11
Hillsboro14.8 miles11

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 LowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48841800The 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 458654. 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.