Williams, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50271. The Survey maps it on the Williams quadrangle. 307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.
On record in Williams
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 1 record
Schultz Brothers Drug Storelisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresWilliams fell from 344 to 307 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 | 344 | |
| 2020 | 307 | -37 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Williams quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
30 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $100,000 | A hog containment building was destroyed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $30,000 | Grain bin on the road and power lines down. Possible tornado damage. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Williams | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Williams | $10,000 | Tornado formed 4 miles southeast of Williams and moved initially north but made a sweeping right turn to the east southeast before leaving the county. An outbuilding lost part of its roof with crop damage occurring along the path. The tornado then entered Hardin county. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Williams | $10,000 | Brief touchdown south of the town of Williams. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Williams | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Williams | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Williams | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Williams | $1,000 | Trained spotter reported hail up to quarter size blanketed on the ground, with some damage to leaves and vegetation. Delayed report and time estimated from radar. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Williams | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Williams | - | A brief tornado developed in far northern Hamilton County and travelled a short distance north before leaving the county. No damage indicators were impacted in Hamilton County, hence the EFU rating. This tornado moved into Wright county. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Williams | - | Public reported penny sized hail. This is a delayed report. |
| August 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Williams | - | This brief and narrow tornado formed a little over 3 miles southeast of Williams and moved east southeast. It remained in open farmland producing some crop damage. The tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Williams | - | There was a brief tornado touchdown with no damage reported. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Wind gust was measured at an RWIS location. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Williams | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Williams | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Williams | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Williams | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blairsburg | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Remicker (historical) | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Stonega | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Kamrar | 11.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ellsworth | 12.2 miles | 9 | |
| Jewell | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Webster City | 14.4 miles | 9 | |
| Randall | 17.5 miles | 15 |
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 Williams | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1012283 | 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 463052. 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.




