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Schleswig, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51461. The Survey maps it on the Schleswig quadrangle. 830 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.

Schleswig within Crawford County

On record in Schleswig

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

Population over time

2 figures

Schleswig fell from 882 to 830 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
2010882
2020830-52 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Schleswig between 2006 and 2017, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
20 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Schleswig: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schleswig in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSchleswig1 hurt, $5,000no account filed
April 2023HailSchleswig$100,000Delayed report, time estimated by radar. Severely damaged cars with ground covered in hail.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$50,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$40,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000Power poles blown down.
August 2009HailSchleswig$25,000Hail swath of quarter to golf ball size hail.
June 2008Flash FloodSchleswig$25,000Various gravel roads in northern Crawford County were covered with water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000Crawford County dispatch reported power lines down. Time radar estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$15,000Multiple trees were reported down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$5,000Power was reported out in town.
July 2003HailSchleswig$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailSchleswig$3,000no account filed
June 1996HailSchleswig$3,000no account filed
August 2009HailSchleswig$2,000no account filed
July 2003HailSchleswig$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$2,000no account filed
September 2004HailSchleswig$1,000no account filed
April 1999HailSchleswig$1,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSchleswig-US highway 59 blocked due to downed tree and power lines.
May 2019Heavy RainSchleswig-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.14 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2017Heavy RainSchleswig-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.64 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainSchleswig-Rainfall of 3.06 inches.
June 2008Heavy RainSchleswig-Just over 2 inches of rain in about an hour.
May 2013Funnel CloudSchleswig-no account filed
May 1998HailSchleswig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Kiron6.2 miles8
Deloit7.6 miles8
Ricketts7.8 miles8
Charter Oak10.6 miles8
Boyer10.8 miles8
Denison11.1 miles8
Kenwood11.5 miles8
Sunset Village11.8 miles8

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 SchleswigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925691The 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 461464. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.