Weston, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hazel Dell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51576. It stands on Henchal Creek. The Survey maps it on the McClelland quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWeston fell from 92 to 78 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 | 92 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -14 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 2009 and 2020, burning about 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | 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 Weston: 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
8 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 8 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Mesonet measured wind gust of 66 mph. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Weston | - | Amateur radio estimated hail up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Weston | - | Law enforcement report of hail estimated up to 2.75 in diameter. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Weston | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 4 in diameter. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Fire chief reported power lines and power poles down for about 1/4 mile. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Emergency manager reported a roof blown of a house. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Weston | - | A narrow but strong tornado tracked along Road L34 through Sherwood Country Estates before ending near Juniper Road. The maximum damage was sustained to a home in Sherwood Country Estates where the narrow tornado removed the majority of a homes roof and damaged other nearby homes as well. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Weston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McClelland | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Gilliatt | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Chautauqua | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Underwood | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Peter | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Quick | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Crescent | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bentley | 6.9 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 Weston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6166999 | 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 462944. 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.





