Swedesburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northern Henry County, Iowa, United States.

[4] They first arrived in the region in the 1860s after a wave of migration to the nearby Jefferson County in the 1840s.

[6][7] The following buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places: It is in the Waco Community School District.

[8] The author Bill Bryson mentions Swedesburg in his 2006 memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

Bryson recalls seeing Swedesburg from a distance whilst visiting his grandparents in nearby Winfield in the 1950s, and reflects how the heritages of settlements such as Swedesburg were affected by the policies of Governor William L. Harding, which resulted in the decline of European languages in the state.