Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Walford, IA

Walford straddles the line between Linn and Benton counties and is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Walford was laid out in 1884 under the name Terry, when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad was extended to that point.

In 1889 the town was renamed Walford, largely because the U.S. Postal Service kept confusing Terry with Perry, Iowa.

Walford made national headlines in 1897 when its general store burned down and a charred corpse was found in the ashes; with two local men missing, newspapers covered the mystery of the body's identity for weeks, a case later told in the book 'Skull in the Ashes.'

Walford was incorporated on April 15, 1954, nearly seventy years after it was founded.

Walford experienced one of the most dramatic small-town growth spurts in Iowa history, exploding from just 303 residents in 1990 to 1,224 in 2000 - a jump of more than 300% driven by Cedar Rapids suburban growth and annexation.

The 2020 census counted 1,366 people in Walford, living in 485 households, of which an unusually high 72.6% were married-couple households.

Walford children attend the College Community School District, better known as the Cedar Rapids Prairie schools.

Walford is designated a Smart Rural Community, with advanced fiber-optic broadband serving homes and businesses despite its small size of about one square mile.