Stanwood, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fremont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52337. The Survey maps it on the Stanwood quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStanwood fell from 684 to 637 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 | 684 | |
| 2020 | 637 | -47 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1889 USGS Tipton quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Tipton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stanwood in 2009, burning about 3 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanwood in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Stanwood | $100,000 | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of several streets in Stanwood, IA during the evening of June 19. The flood waters were up to a foot deep in places. |
| April 2012 | Lightning | Stanwood | $50,000 | Lightning caused a house fire in Stanwood at 669 State Highway 38. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | $5,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some trees and power poles in Stanwood, IA at 8:57 pm June 8. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | The Stanwood Fire Department reported a measured 72 MPH wind gust. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Tree limbs and power lines down across town. |
| August 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Stanwood | - | Law Enforcement reported that a funnel cloud lowered a third of the way down to the ground then retreated. |
| November 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | A member of the public relayed a report of 64 MPH recorded on a Davis Weather Station. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Several large tree limbs down in Stanwood, up to 14 inches in diameter. One landed on a home and power lines. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | The Iowa Department of Transportation reported a couple of trees were down in the town of Stanwood. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | A trained spotter reported large tree branches were down north of town. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | A trained spotter estimated a peak wind gust around 65 MPH. |
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Stanwood | - | An NWS Storm Survey rated this as an EF-0 tornado. The peak wind speeds were estimated to be 70 MPH. This tornado touched down in a farm field and no damage was found. The tornado location is based on video evidence provided to us by a storm spotter. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Law Enforcement estimated wind speeds of 60 mph. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 40 to 60 mph were observed in Stanwood, IA around 420 pm CDT May 22. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Stanwood | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Stanwood, IA at 420 pm CDT May 22. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph were observed in Stanwood, IA at 643 pm June 18. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Stanwood, IA around 825 pm July 24. A power outage was also observed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | A 59 mph wind gust was measured in Stanwood, IA at 8:55 pm June 8. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew a six inch diameter tree limb down in Stanwood, IA at 8:55 pm June 8. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stanwood | - | dime size hail |
| July 2002 | Flood | Stanwood | - | Several secondary roads covered with high water north of Highway 30. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Roof blown off a porch. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph downed numerous trees. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | Law enforcement reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in Stanwood. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Stanwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Stanwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Stanwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Stanwood | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wald | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Clarence | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Mechanicsville | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Tipton | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Buchanan | 10.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Bluff | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Lowden | 12.0 miles | 15 | |
| Massillon | 12.2 miles | 13 |
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 Stanwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1913186 | 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 461958. 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.







