Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Iowa Colony, TX

Iowa Colony is an incorporated village in northern Brazoria County, Texas - and it really was an Iowa colony, founded in 1908 by the Immigration Land Company of Des Moines, Iowa, and named by Iowans G. I. Hoffmann and Robert Beard.

The community received its own post office in 1919, and rice farming was introduced to the area in 1920, shaping its economy for the rest of the century.

For most of its history Iowa Colony was barely a dot on the map - its population stood at just 27 people and stayed at that level until the mid-1960s.

Iowa Colony had incorporated by 1973, and by the 1990 census it still had only 675 residents.

Iowa Colony gained statewide notoriety in the early 1990s as a major speed trap, and the controversy helped inspire a Texas statute limiting how much profit municipalities may make from traffic fines.

Everything changed with Houston's suburban sprawl - Iowa Colony's population jumped from 1,170 in 2010 to 8,154 at the 2020 census as master-planned communities like Meridiana were built within its limits.

Census Bureau estimates put Iowa Colony's population at about 20,500 by July 2025, an almost eighteen-fold increase in fifteen years.

Iowa Colony now has about 4,175 households, according to Census QuickFacts, most of them in brand-new subdivision homes.

Iowa Colony students attend schools in the Alvin Independent School District - Meridiana Elementary School sits inside the city, and Alvin ISD opened Iowa Colony High School in 2022 with room for 2,500 students.

Iowa Colony lies along Texas State Highway 288, just west of Manvel and south of Pearland, in the heart of the Houston area's southern growth corridor.