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Arion, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51520. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dow City quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Arion within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Arion fell from 108 to 97 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
2010108
202097-11 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Arion between 2009 and 2020, burning about 104 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
31 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1724 UNION AVE, DOW CITY, IA 51528, IOWA
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Arion: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Arion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ballantine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Denison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dow City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Bell (historical)1.8 miles8
Dow City2.1 miles8
Buck Grove4.2 miles8
Kenwood4.8 miles8
Kimze5.0 miles8
Haley5.7 miles8
Sunset Village5.9 miles8
Denison7.4 miles8

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 ArionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913646The 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 454228. 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.