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.
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
- Beaver Creek Bridgelisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresSchleswig 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 882 | |
| 2020 | 830 | -52 (-6%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Schleswig quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional 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 use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
30 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | 1 hurt, $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Schleswig | $100,000 | Delayed report, time estimated by radar. Severely damaged cars with ground covered in hail. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $25,000 | Power poles blown down. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Schleswig | $25,000 | Hail swath of quarter to golf ball size hail. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Schleswig | $25,000 | Various gravel roads in northern Crawford County were covered with water. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $20,000 | Crawford County dispatch reported power lines down. Time radar estimated. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $15,000 | Multiple trees were reported down. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $5,000 | Power was reported out in town. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Schleswig | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Schleswig | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Schleswig | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Schleswig | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Schleswig | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Schleswig | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Schleswig | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schleswig | - | US highway 59 blocked due to downed tree and power lines. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Schleswig | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.14 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Schleswig | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.64 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Schleswig | - | Rainfall of 3.06 inches. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Schleswig | - | Just over 2 inches of rain in about an hour. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Schleswig | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Schleswig | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiron | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Deloit | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Ricketts | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Charter Oak | 10.6 miles | 8 | |
| Boyer | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Denison | 11.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kenwood | 11.5 miles | 8 | |
| Sunset Village | 11.8 miles | 8 |
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 Schleswig | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1925691 | 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 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.




