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New London, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New London Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52645. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle. 1,910 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

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New London within Henry County

On record in New London

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

New London grew from 1,897 to 1,910 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
20101,897
20201,910+13 (+1%)

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

16 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of New London between 2011 and 2020, burning about 74 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2020Debris 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
5 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New London in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2009LightningNew London$75,000Lightning started a house fire in New London, IA around 455 pm on May 15.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew some siding off a house on the northwest side of New London, IA around 640 pm June 23. This report was relayed by the emergency manager of Henderson County Illinois.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew the siding off a house in New London, IA around 639 pm June 23.
April 1994HailNew London$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew London-Recorded wind gust by the Iowa DOT.
July 2021HailNew London-A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail.
July 2021HailNew London-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail fell for 2 minutes.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A tree and some limbs reported down, with heavy rain and strong winds continuing.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A 4 inch diameter peach tree branch was broken off.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-Several 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew London-A trained spotter reported that 4 to 6 inch tree limbs were down and the power was out.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNew London-A measured report by a spotter relayed through emergency management.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNew London-The spotter reported 50 to 60 mph wind gusts.
February 2017HailNew London-A spotter reported pea to nickel size hail for a 6 minute long period.
February 2017HailNew London-A public report of quarter size hail was received.
April 2015HailNew London-The Fire Department in New London reported golf ball sized hail was falling. The report was relayed by the Henry County 911 Center.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew London-A barn was severely damaged.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew London-A trained spotter reported a 10 inch partially rotted tree branch blown down at Chestnut and McKinley. A 4 inch health branch was blown down on the road near 300 East Cleveland in New London.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNew London-Wind gusts were estimated to be 50 to 60 mph in New London, IA around 645 pm June 23.
June 2008HailNew London-Nickel-sized hail fell about 3 miles south of New London, IA at 6:35 pm June 12.
June 2008HailNew London-Hail estimated to be dime-sized fell in the vicinity of New London, IA.
June 2008HailNew London-Hail estimated to be dime-sized fell just south of New London, IA.
June 2006HailNew London-up to penny size hail
October 2001HailNew London-0.75 in hail reported by law enforcement.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNew London-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust reported in New London.
March 2023HailNew London-no account filed
May 2019HailNew London-no account filed
May 2017HailNew London-no account filed
April 2015HailNew London-no account filed
March 2006HailNew London-no account filed
April 1996HailNew London-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindNew London-no account filed
April 1996HailNew London-no account filed

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)5.7 miles11
Lowell6.7 miles11
Mount Pleasant8.8 miles11
Mount Union9.0 miles7
Oakland Mills11.5 miles11
Traxler (historical)11.9 miles7
Westwood12.2 miles11
Denova (historical)12.7 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 New LondonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926310The 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 459480. 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.