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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.

Stanwood within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Stanwood 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.

YearPeople Change
2010684
2020637-47 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Flash FloodStanwood$100,000Heavy 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 2012LightningStanwood$50,000Lightning caused a house fire in Stanwood at 669 State Highway 38.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindStanwood$25,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindStanwood$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some trees and power poles in Stanwood, IA at 8:57 pm June 8.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindStanwood-The Stanwood Fire Department reported a measured 72 MPH wind gust.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Tree limbs and power lines down across town.
August 2022Funnel CloudStanwood-Law Enforcement reported that a funnel cloud lowered a third of the way down to the ground then retreated.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindStanwood-A member of the public relayed a report of 64 MPH recorded on a Davis Weather Station.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Several large tree limbs down in Stanwood, up to 14 inches in diameter. One landed on a home and power lines.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindStanwood-The Iowa Department of Transportation reported a couple of trees were down in the town of Stanwood.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindStanwood-A trained spotter reported large tree branches were down north of town.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindStanwood-A trained spotter estimated a peak wind gust around 65 MPH.
August 2015Tornado (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 2013Thunderstorm WindStanwood-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Law Enforcement estimated wind speeds of 60 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Wind gusts estimated to be 40 to 60 mph were observed in Stanwood, IA around 420 pm CDT May 22.
May 2011HailStanwood-Quarter sized hail fell in Stanwood, IA at 420 pm CDT May 22.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph were observed in Stanwood, IA at 643 pm June 18.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Stanwood, IA around 825 pm July 24. A power outage was also observed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindStanwood-A 59 mph wind gust was measured in Stanwood, IA at 8:55 pm June 8.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindStanwood-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 2006HailStanwood-dime size hail
July 2002FloodStanwood-Several secondary roads covered with high water north of Highway 30.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Roof blown off a porch.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph downed numerous trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindStanwood-Law enforcement reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in Stanwood.
April 2020HailStanwood-no account filed
July 2020HailStanwood-no account filed
July 2020HailStanwood-no account filed
May 2011HailStanwood-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindStanwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Wald3.9 miles12
Clarence5.0 miles12
Mechanicsville5.6 miles12
Tipton8.6 miles12
Buchanan10.2 miles12
Cedar Bluff11.2 miles12
Lowden12.0 miles15
Massillon12.2 miles13

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 StanwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913186The 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.