Reinbeck, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Black Hawk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50669. It stands on Mosquito Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reinbeck quadrangle. 1,662 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresReinbeck fell from 1,664 to 1,662 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 | 1,664 | |
| 2020 | 1,662 | -2 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Reinbeck quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reinbeck in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Reinbeck | $200,000 | Tornado touched down with a debris ball noted. Damage to homes occurred many to the southwest of Reinbeck. Numerous crops flattened. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Reinbeck | $50,000 | Highway 175 north of Reinbeck closed by county officials by water over the road. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $10,000 | Trained spotter reported winds of at least 60 mph that blew down half the trees in their front yard. Time radar estimated. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Reinbeck | $10,000 | Six inches of water was over the road due to flooding from Black Hawk Creek. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $5,000 | Large limb toppled a power line which fell across IA 175 in Reinbeck. Several other large limbs down across the west side of town. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | - | Report of large tree split and large branches downed in Reinbeck. |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Total rainfall of 3.15 inches at PWS since midnight. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | - | Trained spotter reported branches down. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | A 24 hour rain total of 2.68 inches. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | - | Trained spotter report of tree branches down with winds estimated at 60 to 65 mph. |
| June 2020 | Flood | Reinbeck | - | Iowa Department of Transportation reported 6 to 8 inches of standing water along highway 175, east of T55. This was relayed by the Grundy county sheriff. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Personal weather station reported a 24 hour rain total of of 2.20 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Mesonet station reported a 24-hour rainfall total of 2.10 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Mesonet station reported a 24-hour rainfall total of 2.52 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Mesonet station reported a 24 hour rain total of 3.28 inches thus far. Still raining at report time. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reinbeck | - | A trained spotter reported trees down across roads all over town. Time estimated. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Reinbeck | - | A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail. |
| July 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Reinbeck | - | Tornado evident in photographs from the public as well as flyover satellite data. This brief segment started shortly after the Reinbeck tornado ended. The tornado moved from Grundy into Tama county. This is the first segment. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Reinbeck | - | Weekend total. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Reinbeck | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Reinbeck | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morrison | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Zaneta | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Grundy Center | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Dike | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Fredsville | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Dairyville (historical) | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Holland | 11.9 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 Reinbeck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q646582 | 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 460580. 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.
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.



