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Alburnett, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52202. The Survey maps it on the Central City quadrangle. 675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Alburnett within Linn County

On record in Alburnett

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Alburnett grew from 673 to 675 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.

YearPeople Change
2010673
2020675+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alburnett between 2003 and 2006, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Alburnett: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alburnett in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Tornado (F1)Alburnett1 hurt, $50,000A tornado touched down at Alburnett causing damage. The center section of the horse barn roof at Strand Arabian Stables was torn off. Sheet metal from the horse barn roof littered surrounding yards, and one woman was cut by the sheet metal. She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital where she was treated and released. There were about 45 horses on the grounds of the stables when the tornado hit, but incredibly none were hurt. A barn also collapsed along Lafayette Road. Ten cows were inside the barn, and one was killed. Damage was also found along East Otter Road. A house had it's roof damaged and siding taken off, and a small shed was destroyed. A minivan was pushed off of a driveway and had it's windows broken out. A garage door was also pushed in on a garage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlburnett$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph resulted in a power outage in Alburnett, IA at 525 am CDT July 11.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAlburnett$25,000Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew down several large trees damaging some homes. Time estimated.
April 2006HailAlburnett$8,000no account filed
September 2018Tornado (EF1)Alburnett$1,000A NWS Survey Team determined a brief high end EF1 tornado, with estimated maximum wind speeds around 110 mph, snapped and uprooted hardwood trees at a farmstead. The tornado was embedded in a roughly quarter mile wide swath of straight line wind damage with estimated speeds of 80 to 90 mph.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindAlburnett$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew some branches down and ripped some shingles and siding off a home in Alburnett, IA around 640 pm April 5.
April 2024Funnel CloudAlburnett-The Fire Department reported a funnel cloud just west of Alburnett.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-A citizen reported estimated high winds.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-A trained spotter reported several healthy large tree branches down, the time was estimated by radar.
June 2017HailAlburnett-This report was received through social media.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-Tree limbs larger than 2 inches in diameter were blown down.
May 2014HailAlburnett-Quarter sized hail fell about 6 miles west of Central City, IA around 500 pm CDT May 20.
May 2014HailAlburnett-Quarter sized hail fell about 3 miles north of Alburnett, IA around 732 pm CDT May 20.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-Local broadcast media estimated wind speeds of 55 to 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees in Alburnett, IA at 813 pm CDT June 8.
April 2006HailAlburnett-Golf ball sized hail.
May 2001HailAlburnett-Quarter sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-Trees and large limbs downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAlburnett-no account filed
May 2002HailAlburnett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lafayette3.3 miles15
Rogers3.9 miles15
Midway5.1 miles18
Alice5.3 miles15
Robins5.9 miles18
Toddville6.2 miles18
Central City6.3 miles15
Jordans Grove6.4 miles14

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 AlburnettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970672The 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 454117. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.