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.
Population over time
2 figuresPackwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 204 | |
| 2020 | 183 | -21 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Ollie quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Hail | Packwood | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Packwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Packwood | $10,000 | Nickel to golfball sized hail |
| September 2005 | Hail | Packwood | $6,000 | also heavy rain between Pekin and Packwood. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | $5,000 | 6 inch diameter limbs down |
| July 2006 | Hail | Packwood | $2,000 | quarter size hail |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | - | Snapped power poles reported. Time estimated from radar data. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | - | Power poles snapped. Time estimated from radar data. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Packwood | - | The time was estimated from radar data. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | - | Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and branches down in the city of Packwood. The time of the event is estimated using radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | - | Siding was blown off a new addition to a home. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Packwood | - | A torrential downpour of rain with near-zero visibility was also observed. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Packwood | - | 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 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Packwood | - | Funnel cloud off to the south |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Packwood | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged an outdoor shed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linby | 3.3 miles | 7 | |
| Pekin | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Abingdon | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Brookville | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Maharishi Vedic City | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Bernhart (historical) | 8.3 miles | 7 | |
| Veo | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Whitefield (historical) | 9.7 miles | 7 |
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 Packwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926298 | 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 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.





