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Macedonia, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Macedonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51549. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Macedonia within Pottawattamie County

Population over time

2 figures

Macedonia grew from 246 to 267 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
2020267+21 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Macedonia in 2009, burning about 5 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/undetermined1

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
12 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Macedonia: 5 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
K and S QurryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MacedoniaStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North MacedoniaStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
South MacedoniaStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawattamie County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macedonia in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 tornado, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMacedonia$50,000no account filed
August 1993Tornado (F0)Macedonia$50,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMacedonia$5,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Macedonia-This tornado touched down at the intersection of Beechnut Road and 360th Street. Several trees were snapped at the base of their trunks as this tornado moved to the northeast. The tornado continued to produce tree damage, with branches broken along 370th Street, half a mile north of Brunswick Avenue. This tornado dissipated shortly after crossing 370th Street. The peak estimated winds in this tornado were 93 miles per hour. The peak measured width of the damage path was 200 yards, with an estimated average width of 150 yards.
April 2023Tornado (EFU)Macedonia-Multiple photos, videos, and reports confirm that a brief 30-second-long ground circulation developed below a long-lived funnel cloud in this approximate location, lofting dust or light debris. No damage was reported or surveyed with this tornado.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMacedonia-Public reported substantial damage to a farmstead. Grain bins were destroyed. Outbuildings blown off of foundation.
June 2022HailMacedonia-Public reported 1-inch hail via social media.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMacedonia-Public reported large trees down in Wheeler Grove township.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Macedonia-A tornado tracked from east of Macedonia to east of Oakland, causing intermittent damage to trees, outbuildings, and homes along the track.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMacedonia-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked a few boards off of a farm outbuilding. The winds were accompanied by pea-size hail.
May 2009HailMacedonia-The public reported golf ball to baseball-size hail in Macedonia. The reported was relayed to the NWS through a local TV station.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Macedonia-A brief tornado touchdown knocked down some small tree limbs and caused a power pole to lean about 6 miles east of Macedonia on County Road G66. The funnel and then eventual tornado was high-based and very narrow and was seen from people who were near Griswold, Oakland, Elliott, Treynor and Macedonia. The funnel was visible for around 20 or 25 minutes.
May 2007Tornado (EF2)Macedonia-This tornado crossed into Pottawattamie county from Montgomery county about 4 miles southeast of Macedonia. The total path length was around 11.5 miles. Although over half of it was in Pottawattamie county, most of the damage was done in Montgomery county where a roof was torn off of a house, barns were destroyed and cars were tossed into a field.
June 2017HailMacedonia-no account filed
April 2014HailMacedonia-no account filed
July 2008HailMacedonia-no account filed
June 2006HailMacedonia-no account filed
June 2006HailMacedonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawattamie 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
Carson3.1 miles9
Taylor7.4 miles9
Kemling (historical)8.0 miles9
Oakland8.2 miles9
Iola (historical)10.0 miles9
Treynor10.3 miles10
Hancock14.0 miles10
York Center14.4 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 MacedoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998833The 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 458711. 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.