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Packwood, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52580. The Survey maps it on the Ollie quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Packwood within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Packwood fell from 204 to 183 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
2010204
2020183-21 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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 Packwood in 2009, burning about 4 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
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Packwood in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 2003HailPackwood$500,000no account filed
April 2003HailPackwood$50,000no account filed
September 2005HailPackwood$10,000Nickel to golfball sized hail
September 2005HailPackwood$6,000also heavy rain between Pekin and Packwood.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPackwood$5,0006 inch diameter limbs down
July 2006HailPackwood$2,000quarter size hail
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPackwood-Snapped power poles reported. Time estimated from radar data.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPackwood-Power poles snapped. Time estimated from radar data.
April 2026HailPackwood-The time was estimated from radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPackwood-Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and branches down in the city of Packwood. The time of the event is estimated using radar.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindPackwood-Siding was blown off a new addition to a home.
May 2013HailPackwood-A torrential downpour of rain with near-zero visibility was also observed.
June 2008Flash FloodPackwood-A trained spotter measured more than 5 inches of rain. Several yards and roads were flooded in Packwood, with the water about 3 feet deep in places.
March 2006Funnel CloudPackwood-Funnel cloud off to the south
September 1999Thunderstorm WindPackwood-Thunderstorm winds damaged an outdoor shed.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Linby3.3 miles7
Pekin4.6 miles7
Abingdon4.6 miles7
Brookville5.3 miles7
Maharishi Vedic City7.2 miles7
Bernhart (historical)8.3 miles7
Veo9.4 miles7
Whitefield (historical)9.7 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 PackwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926298The 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 459986. 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.