BlockWoden, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bingham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50484. The Survey maps it on the Woden quadrangle. 188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWoden fell from 229 to 188 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 188 | -41 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Woden quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woden: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Township Park | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woden in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019 | Flood | Woden | $100,000 | Iowa DOT reported US 18 closed between Britt and Garner due to flooding. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Woden | $50,000 | Law enforcement reported some roads closed in rural areas due to water over the road from several rounds of heavy rainfall. Rises also noted local creeks and streams and some overland flooding. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Woden | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Woden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Woden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Woden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woden | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Woden | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flood | Woden | - | Road closed due to water over the roads along with washouts on gravel roads. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Woden | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail. Relayed by Law enforcement. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Woden | - | Numerous secondary roads closed in Hancock County due to flooding. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Woden | - | 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.
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 Woden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232025 | 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 463150. 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.
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.