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Westside, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Side Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51467. The Survey maps it on the Arcadia quadrangle. 285 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.

Westside within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Westside fell from 299 to 285 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
2010299
2020285-14 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Westside between 2009 and 2011, burning under an 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
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
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH SIDE OF TOWN, IA
1 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westside in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWestside$100,000Trained spotter reported strong winds that derailed several train cars near Westside.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWestside$50,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodWestside$25,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWestside$10,000Emergency manager reported significant damage to a barn south of Westside. Time estimated by radar.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWestside$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailWestside$5,000Hail fell between Vail and Westside on Highway 30.
May 2004HailWestside$5,000no account filed
July 2024HailWestside-Pea to quarter-sized. Time of occurrence estimated from radar.
July 2024HailWestside-Delayed report of 2 inch hail in Westside.
June 2018HailWestside-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2018HailWestside-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWestside-Trained spotter reported several 6 inch tree branches down along with the 60 mph wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Vail5.4 miles8
Aspinwall10.4 miles8
Boyer River10.6 miles8
Boyer11.2 miles8
Deloit12.2 miles8
Manilla13.7 miles8
Denison13.9 miles8
Sunset Village15.2 miles8

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 WestsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232915The 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 462948. 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.