Swedesburg, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52641. The Survey maps it on the Swedesburg quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Swedesburg within Henry County

On record in Swedesburg

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 5 records

Hult, Charles E., House, Summer Kitchen and Wood Shedlisted 1999
John Hultquist Houselisted 1999
Red Ball Garagelisted 1999
Swedesburg Historic Commercial Districtlisted 1999
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1999

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Swedesburg quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swedesburg in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 1994	Hail	Swedesburg	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	$100	Winds estimated to be 60 mph blew away two stop signs near the intersection of 170th Street and Highway 218 about 7 miles north of Mount Pleasant.
July 2021	Hail	Swedesburg	-	Golf ball hail on 218 near Swedesburg. Heavy rain with near zero visibility.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	-	Several large tree limbs blown down.
May 2018	Hail	Swedesburg	-	A public report was received of hail up to the size of nickels that last for 5 minutes.
July 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Swedesburg	-	An EF0 tornado with maximum winds estimated at 80 mph touched down 1.9 miles southwest of Swedesburg, IA. It traveled 1.51 miles and lifted 0.8 miles south of Swedesburg. The average path width was 10 yards. No damage was reported.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Swedesburg	-	A portion of a gravel road (Kentucky Ave) south of Highway 78 washed away in the heavy rains. Time estimated.
March 2026	Hail	Swedesburg	-	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Olds	2.0 miles	7
Traxler (historical)	5.6 miles	7
Trenton	5.7 miles	7
Winfield	5.7 miles	7
Wayland	6.7 miles	7
Mount Union	8.9 miles	7
Coppock	9.5 miles	7
Mount Pleasant	9.8 miles	11

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 Swedesburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7654561	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 462147. 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.