Nodaway, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nodaway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50857. The Survey maps it on the Villisca quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
On record in Nodaway
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
Noah Odell Houselisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresNodaway fell from 114 to 74 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 74 | -40 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Villisca quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Nodaway between 2006 and 2011, burning about 223 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/undetermined | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1171 WILLOW AVE, IA |
| 22 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nodaway in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF3) | Nodaway | 1 killed, $1,800,000 | The tornado entered into Adams County after clipping the northwest corner of Taylor County. Damage was immediate on the county border with damage to trees and and to farm buildings and power poles within the first few miles in the county. The tornado continued to gain in strength and size as it travelled northeast through southwest Adams county remaining in rural areas south and east of Nodaway. The tornado eventually crossed Federal Highway 34 just north of Brooks with plenty of videos showing a large funnel with debris swirling below it. As the tornado crossed State Highway 148, it gained in strength with EF2 damage becoming more common. Upon reaching the intersection of 150th Street and Notchwood Avenue, EF3 damage occurred with much of an unanchored house losing walls and sliding off the foundation. All outbuildings at this site were also destroyed. As the tornado continued into the north central portion of the county, it encountered several industrial wind mills. Several of the towers collapsed along with the large blades being tossed hundreds of feet through the air. The tornado was multi-vortex at this point with a width of 1300 yards. The tornado exited the county into Adair County between Quince Avenue and Redwood Avenue. The was one death in the county from this tornado when a female driver was ejected from a vehicle which got caught within the circulation. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F4) | Nodaway | 1 hurt, $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Nodaway | $200,000 | Several places throughout Nodaway reported 6 inches of flowing water over roads and inundating homes and businesses. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Nodaway | $150,000 | Adams County Law Enforcement reported railroad tracks washed out between track mile posts 423 and 424. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Nodaway | $25,000 | Water flowing over rural roads in several locations of southwest Adams County. EM had to turn around one half mile south of Nodaway due to flash flooding. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Nodaway | $25,000 | Water reported up to the railroad tracks. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nodaway | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Nodaway | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nodaway | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Nodaway | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported water over Chestnut Ave between 240th and 250th Street. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nodaway | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Nodaway | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nodaway | $3,000 | High winds blew down several 6 inch diameter tree branches. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Nodaway | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Nodaway | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nodaway | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nodaway | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Nodaway | - | Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail reported southeast of Nodaway, Iowa. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nodaway | - | Delayed report of 3 inch tree limbs broken and power poles broken. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Nodaway | - | Public reported heavy rainfall total of 5.20 inches since 6:30pm the previous day, Wednesday. Report via social media. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Nodaway | - | Photo from storm chaser and report from media. No damage. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Nodaway | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickieville | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Brooks | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Iveyville | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Carbon | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Corning | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Quincy | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Strand | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Queen City (historical) | 10.9 miles | 9 |
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 Nodaway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926440 | The 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 459537. 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.




