Burt, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50522. The Survey maps it on the Burt quadrangle. 418 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBurt fell from 533 to 418 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 533 | |
| 2020 | 418 | -115 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Burt quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Burt between 1995 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | BUFFALO CREEK FIRE |
| 4 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | WEBER |
| 24 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Wetland Management District | WAPATI WF |
| 9 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | MCCANN |
| 9 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | UNIT 2 WEST |
| 6 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.4 acres | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | BUFFALO-WD |
| 5 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.7 acres | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | TIENAN |
| 29 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge | REFUGE SOUTH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burt: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burt in 31 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 16 flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | Burt | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Burt | $250,000 | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Flood | Burt | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Burt | $100,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Flood | Burt | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $50,000 | A listener reported telephone poles down, damage to a building, and possibly a trailer. Relayed by KLGA radio. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Burt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Burt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flood | Burt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Flood | Burt | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Burt | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $20,000 | Law Enforcement reported a tree downed onto a house. Time and location estimated. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Burt | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $10,000 | Maple tree blown down in front yard with limbs broken in half. Eight to ten inch diameter tree limbs down. Power was knocked out. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Burt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Flood | Burt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $5,000 | Power lines and trees down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $5,000 | Two power poles downed one half mile north of Burt and tree limbs were downed in Burt. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Burt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Burt | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Burt | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Burt | - | CoCoRaHS reported 3.30 inches of rain. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Burt | - | A 24 hour rainfall of 2.26 inches. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Burt | - | CoCoRaHS report of 2.73 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Burt | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Burt | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | - | Public reported 70 to 80 estimated wind gusts. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Burt | - | Public relayed nickel sized hail through Kossuth County dispatch. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Burt | - | no account filed |
| October 2009 | Flood | Burt | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | Burt | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Burt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1914628 | The 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 455008. 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.



