Amazon Warehouses in Iowa: Every Facility Code and Address

Iowa’s Amazon network is small, recent, and concentrated almost entirely around Des Moines.
Polk County holds most of the state’s facilities, spread across Bondurant, Grimes, and Ankeny in
the ring of towns just outside the city.

One note on this page’s address: the URL contains a typographical error inherited from an earlier
version of the site. The state is Iowa. We have corrected the title and the content and kept the
address unchanged so that existing links continue to work.

The short version in numbers: 7 Iowa facilities on record, 6 of
them carrying a published facility code, spread across 2
distinct facility types. The full breakdown is below.

Came here from a tracking page with a code you did not recognize? The table below carries every Iowa facility on our record, with its code, address, and type. Use your browser’s find function. A code that is missing usually belongs to a neighboring state, which in my experience worries people far more than it should.

Every Amazon facility in Iowa

7 facilities, of which 6 have a published code: 2 delivery stations, 2 fulfillment centers.

Addresses are compiled from public listings. Amazon opens, closes, and repurposes buildings
continually, and no facility on this list accepts visitors or takes calls about individual
parcels, which is why we do not publish site phone numbers.

The Iowa codes people look up most

• MLI1 is a fulfillment center at 20710 155th Ave in Davenport. The MLI prefix comes from Moline,
  Illinois, across the Mississippi, which is the clearest example on this page of a code following a
  metro area rather than a state.
• DIA5 is a delivery station at 7310 SE Crosswinds Dr in Ankeny.
• DSM9 is at 2300 Shiloh Rose Pkwy SW in Bondurant, with no type recorded in our listing.
• DSM5 is at 500 32nd St SW, also in Bondurant, likewise with no recorded type.

DSM is the airport code for Des Moines, and DIA relates to the same metro.

The Des Moines ring, and a Mississippi River outlier

Polk County leads clearly, with Pottawattamie and Scott counties holding one each. By town, Bondurant
and Grimes hold two each, with Council Bluffs, Davenport, and Ankeny holding one.

Bondurant, Grimes, and Ankeny form a ring around Des Moines. Each sits 15 to 20 minutes from the
city on I-35 and I-80. That crossing is the whole reason the capacity exists. Des Moines is roughly
340 miles from Chicago, 200 from Omaha, and 240 from Kansas City, which gives it reach in four
directions at land prices nothing like Chicago’s.

The two outliers face different states. Council Bluffs, in Pottawattamie County, sits directly
across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska, and serves that metro as much as it serves Iowa.
Davenport, in Scott County, sits on the Mississippi in the Quad Cities, which straddle the Illinois
line.

That last one produces a detail worth noticing. The Davenport facility carries an MLI code, and
MLI is the airport code for Moline, Illinois, across the river. It is a clean example of a facility
code following a metropolitan area rather than a state boundary.

Northern and southern Iowa are served across longer distances. Winter weather affects reliability
between December and March, typically adding 1 to 2 days on the worst weeks. I’d treat estimates in
those months as approximate.

What it means when your parcel is at one of these

Knowing what kind of building your parcel is sitting in changes how much patience the situation
deserves, and in our experience most people worry at exactly the wrong moment.

Inventory lives at a fulfillment center, so a parcel scanned there has generally not been picked
and packed yet. A sortation center deals only with packed parcels, sorting them toward the right
region. A delivery station is the final stop before a van, and I’d expect delivery within a day
or so of seeing one. Our guide to the different types of Amazon warehouse
covers what happens inside each, and sortation center versus fulfillment center
covers the pair people confuse most.

On the codes themselves, a caution. Amazon does not publish how it names facilities, which
means any lookup table circulating online is somebody’s inference. The leading D for a delivery
station is the one convention that mostly survives scrutiny. For everything else, in our experience
the type column above is the safer guide than anything the letters appear to suggest.

If the parcel has stopped moving entirely, our guide to what a carrier delay means
covers how long to wait before it is worth doing anything, and our guide to
a disappeared order covers the case where
the order itself has vanished from your account rather than the parcel from the network.

If your code is not on this list

Plenty of people arrive here, search for their code, and find nothing. I’d not treat that as a
dead end, because there are only a few explanations and none of them are alarming.

The building is over a state line. Much the commonest reason. Parcel networks pay no attention to
borders, and neighboring states routinely handle each other’s volume. In our experience this accounts
for the large majority of missing codes.

The facility is newer than this listing. Amazon opens buildings continually and no compiled list
keeps pace. If the code looks unfamiliar and recent, that is likely why.

The code belongs to a partner rather than to Amazon. Contracted delivery firms and third-party
logistics providers generate their own scan codes, which never appear on a list of Amazon facilities.

You misread a character. Genuinely common. Zero against O, one against I, five against S. When I
have chased a code that seemed not to exist, roughly half the time it was a transcription slip.

None of these change what you should do, which is wait for the tracking to update rather than
investigate the building.

Other Amazon buildings you may see in tracking

Beyond fulfillment, sortation, and delivery, several other building types appear in tracking,
and each explains a different oddity.

An air hub exists to move freight between regions by plane, so a scan there can put your parcel a
long way from anywhere you expected. A receive center, also called a cross-dock, takes bulk
inbound freight from manufacturers and splits it for onward distribution, meaning nothing inside is
assigned to a customer. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution holds bulk inventory upstream and
tops up fulfillment centers on its own schedule. Returns centers inspect and grade what comes
back. Third-party partner sites are contracted rather than owned, which is why the address
sometimes looks like an ordinary industrial unit.

In our experience these account for most of the tracking scans people cannot make sense of.

Visiting, calling, and collecting

One question worth answering before you ask it: none of these buildings are open to the
public. Fulfillment centers, sortation centers, and delivery stations do not accept visitors, do
not hold parcels for collection, and do not have a desk that will discuss your order. If you need to
collect something, Amazon Locker and Amazon Hub Counter locations are the designated points, and
they are entirely separate from the facilities listed here.

The same goes for phone numbers. Several published lists of Amazon facilities include site numbers,
and I’d ignore them. They ring switchboards that cannot look up an order, and in our experience
people waste an afternoon on that before calling Amazon customer service, which is where the
question belonged in the first place.

Iowa for sellers: position without much presence

Iowa is well positioned and lightly built, which is an honest summary.

Des Moines sits within a day’s drive of a large share of the Midwest, and the state has attracted
distribution investment for the same reasons Amazon came: interstate access, cheap land, and no
mountains. But the network here is small, and only fulfillment centers hold seller inventory, of
which our listing shows two.

Placement is not your decision in any case. Send to Amazon assigns your inbound destination based
on Amazon’s own planning, so proximity to a good interstate junction is not something you can convert
into an advantage.

Two practical notes for anyone selling into the region. Winter weather affects delivery reliability
between December and March, and a late delivery affects your On-Time Delivery Rate regardless of
cause. And if your customers are in western Iowa, expect Nebraska codes in their tracking, since
Council Bluffs and Omaha function as one market.

What this page is for, and what it is not. Worth being direct about, because I’ve found
readers assume more precision than any compiled list can offer.

The data comes from public listings, not from Amazon, so it lags reality in both directions:
recently closed sites may persist, recently opened ones may be missing. The type column repeats what
those listings said. In our experience it holds up well, though not perfectly.

Treat the page as a lookup for a code you already have and as a way to place your parcel in the
sequence. I’d not treat it, or any similar list, as an exact census of Amazon’s buildings.

FAQ

How many Amazon warehouses are in Iowa?

The complete list with codes, addresses, and types appears in the table above. Polk County holds most
of them, spread across Bondurant, Grimes, and Ankeny around Des Moines.

What is MLI1 and why does it have an Illinois code?

MLI1 is a fulfillment center at 20710 155th Ave in Davenport, Iowa. MLI is the airport code for
Moline, Illinois, across the Mississippi in the Quad Cities, so the facility code follows the
metropolitan area rather than the state line.

Which Iowa county has the most Amazon facilities?

Polk County, around Des Moines, with Pottawattamie and Scott counties holding one each at the western
and eastern edges of the state.

Why does my western Iowa parcel show a Nebraska facility?

Because Council Bluffs sits directly across the Missouri River from Omaha and the two function as a
single market. Nebraska codes in western Iowa tracking are routine.

Why does Amazon build around Des Moines rather than in it?

Because Bondurant, Grimes, and Ankeny sit on or near the I-35 and I-80 junction, fifteen to twenty
minutes out, where land is cheap and the interstate access is better than inside the city.

Does Iowa hold much seller inventory?

Not much. Only fulfillment centers store seller stock and our listing shows two in the state. Sellers
cannot choose their inbound destination in any case, since Amazon assigns it through Send to
Amazon.

Last updated: August 30, 2026. Compiled from public listings; Amazon’s facility network changes
continually and this page will lag it. Facilities do not accept visitors or handle parcel
inquiries. For warehouse employment, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings and is
the only accurate source.