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Nashua, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bradford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50658. It stands on Little Cedar River. The Survey maps it on the Nashua quadrangle. 1,551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Nashua within Chickasaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Nashua fell from 1,663 to 1,551 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
20101,663
20201,551-112 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

21 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Nashua between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,539 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8

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
1 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1195 BEAUMONT WAY, IA
6 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2020Debris and open burning65 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Nashua: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hunt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
NashuaStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
TracyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Boevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boveig PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Nashua PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chickasaw County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashua in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNashua1 hurt, $500,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNashua$150,000no account filed
June 2013Flash FloodNashua$120,000Locally heavy rain produced some street flooding and caused water to go in some basements in Nashua. Flooding also impacted Lawler and caused damage to secondary roads across the southern sections of the county.
July 1999Tornado (F1)Nashua$120,000Tornado began in Floyd County
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNashua$100,000no account filed
April 1994HailNashua$50,000Thunderstorms developed in the warm and unstable air over Iowa. They developed north and northeast of Des Moines and tracked northeast across northeast Iowa. One of them dropped three-quarter-inch diameter hail at Conrad. A short time later, golf ball-size hail fell south of Scarville. Farther northeast, one-inch diameter hail was reported in Chickasaw County at Nashua. The hail fell for 10 to 15 minutes. Some damage was reported, but no serious damage.
September 2016Flash FloodNashua$48,000The fire department had to pump water out of basements in Nashua and volunteers helped sandbag homes in both Nashua and Ionia. Flood waters from the Wapsipinicon River covered U.S. Highway 18 west of New Hampton. For the second time this month, school was canceled in the New Hampton school district because of flooding.
June 2024FloodNashua$45,000Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Little Cedar River at Nashua into flood stage on June 24th. The river stage crested during the early morning on June 25th in major flood stage at 959.94 ft.
July 1995HailNashua$30,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNashua$20,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNashua$7,000Trained spotter reports several trees down and some barns blown over. All the damage was near and south of Nashua.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNashua$5,000Trees were blown down in Nashua. The wind also blew out a window of a home and caused power outages.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNashua$4,000Trees were blown down, snapped or uprooted in Nashua from an estimated 65 mph wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNashua$3,000Telephone poles and crops were damaged by winds southeast of Nashua.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNashua$3,000Power lines were blown down in Nashua.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNashua$3,000Numerous trees were blown down in Nashua.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNashua$2,000Trees were blown down south of Nashua.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNashua$2,000Power outages were reported by the post office.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNashua$1,000no account filed
August 2025FloodNashua-Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Little Cedar River at Nashua to rise into flood stage during the evening on August 18th. The site crested at 956.33 ft in minor flood stage during the early morning hours on August 19th before falling below flood stage during the afternoon that same day.
May 2023FloodNashua-Significant runoff from heavy rainfall upstream resulted in a rapid rise of water and minor flooding along the Little Cedar River near Nashua on May 16th. Minor flooding was initially realized during the early morning of May 16th, with the river cresting 0.94 feet above flood stage of 954.5 feet above sea level on the afternoon of May 16th. It then fell below flood stage late that night.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNashua-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Nashua.
June 2014HailNashua-Golf ball sized hail fell from Nashua northeast toward Boyd. The hail destroyed crops, stripping both beans and corn.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNashua-Trees were blown down in Nashua.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNashua-A 60 mph wind gust was reported in Nashua.
August 2008Funnel CloudNashua-A deputy reported two funnel clouds near Nashua. These occurred under rapidly developing towering cumulus clouds.
May 2008HailNashua-no account filed
May 2004HailNashua-no account filed
June 2002HailNashua-no account filed
June 2002HailNashua-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNashua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chickasaw 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
Bradford1.9 miles9
Chickasaw6.0 miles7
Ionia7.0 miles7
Republic7.4 miles9
Bassett7.7 miles7
Williamstown11.6 miles9
Dresden (historical)11.7 miles9
North Washington13.0 miles7

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 NashuaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990640The 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 459437. 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.