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Macksburg, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grand River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50155. The Survey maps it on the Macksburg quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Macksburg within Madison County

On record in Macksburg

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

Population over time

2 figures

Macksburg fell from 113 to 97 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
2010113
202097-16 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Macksburg between 2011 and 2015, burning about 84 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1024 REDWOOD AVE, AFTON, IA, IA
3 March 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2015Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2015Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macksburg in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 6 deaths and 5 injuries. 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
March 2022Tornado (EF4)Macksburg6 killed, 5 hurt, $75,000,000This is the first segment of this devastating tornado which passed through four counties including Madison, Warren, Polk and Jasper. The tornado began northwest of Macksburg in western Madision county. The tornado remained in mostly rural cropland and wooded areas of western Madison county. The tornado passed through Pammel State Park southwest of Winterset producing extensive tree damage as the tornado continued to widen into a wedge tornado. Upon exiting the park, the tornado travelled along Carver Road. Several residential homes were extensively damaged or destroyed along Carver Road and six deaths occurred along this stretch of road. The tornado was at peak intensity at this time with EF4 damage occurring west of the intersection of Carver Road and Highway 169 with a house completely destoyed and removed from the foundation. After departing the Carver Road corridor, the tornado progressed just southeast of Winterset and eventually passed east of town and crossing State Highway 92. Damage in these areas was primarily to trees and outbuildings although a few homes were also impacted with mostly EF1 to EF2 damage. From Highway 92 to where the tornado exited the county, it remained mostly in rural cropland and wooded areas with numerous trees impacted. The tornado then moved into Warren county from Madison county.
April 1999Tornado (F2)Macksburg$350,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMacksburg$25,000Roof damage was reported to the American Legion Building.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Macksburg$20,000The tornado moved into Madison County from Union County. It impacted two farmsteads, removing a partial roof on an outbuilding along 330th Street and then producing tree damage at another farm along 315th Street with the tornado dissipating shortly afterwards.
June 2008Flash FloodMacksburg$10,000Flooding on 330th east of Highway 169.
July 2009FloodMacksburg$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMacksburg$10,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMacksburg$5,000Winds gusts estimated at 60 to 65 MPH.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMacksburg$5,000no account filed
May 1997HailMacksburg$4,000no account filed
May 2003HailMacksburg$2,000no account filed
May 2011HailMacksburg$1,000Quarter size hail reported.
April 2024HailMacksburg-Report via mping.
May 2011HailMacksburg-Lots of penny to nickel size hail.
May 1997HailMacksburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
McPherson3.9 miles11
Harrison5.0 miles11
Ord6.6 miles11
Webster8.3 miles11
Barney10.2 miles11
Pitzer11.0 miles11
Buffalo (historical)11.7 miles11
Winterset12.1 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 MacksburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930034The 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 458713. 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.

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.