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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.

Burt within Kossuth County

Population over time

2 figures

Burt 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.

YearPeople Change
2010533
2020418-115 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

17 since 1995

Regional 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 May 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeBUFFALO CREEK FIRE
4 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeWEBER
24 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictWAPATI WF
9 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeMCCANN
9 April 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeUNIT 2 WEST
6 April 1995Arson/incendiarism3.4 acresUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeBUFFALO-WD
5 April 2002Debris and open burning3.7 acresUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeTIENAN
29 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUnion Slough National Wildlife RefugeREFUGE SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kossuth County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kossuth County

Storms near this place

31 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodBurt$1,000,000no account filed
March 2010FloodBurt$250,000no account filed
February 2011FloodBurt$100,000no account filed
June 2011FloodBurt$100,000no account filed
April 2010FloodBurt$75,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBurt$50,000A listener reported telephone poles down, damage to a building, and possibly a trailer. Relayed by KLGA radio.
May 2011FloodBurt$50,000no account filed
June 2010FloodBurt$50,000no account filed
July 2010FloodBurt$50,000no account filed
March 2008FloodBurt$25,000no account filed
September 2004Flash FloodBurt$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurt$20,000Law Enforcement reported a tree downed onto a house. Time and location estimated.
June 2008FloodBurt$15,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBurt$10,000Maple tree blown down in front yard with limbs broken in half. Eight to ten inch diameter tree limbs down. Power was knocked out.
July 2011FloodBurt$10,000no account filed
March 2011FloodBurt$10,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBurt$5,000Power lines and trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBurt$5,000Two power poles downed one half mile north of Burt and tree limbs were downed in Burt.
April 2011FloodBurt$5,000no account filed
July 2011HailBurt$2,000no account filed
April 2001HailBurt$2,000no account filed
June 2024Heavy RainBurt-CoCoRaHS reported 3.30 inches of rain.
August 2021Heavy RainBurt-A 24 hour rainfall of 2.26 inches.
May 2020Heavy RainBurt-CoCoRaHS report of 2.73 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar.
September 2018Heavy RainBurt-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainBurt-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBurt-Public reported 70 to 80 estimated wind gusts. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016HailBurt-Public relayed nickel sized hail through Kossuth County dispatch.
April 2011FloodBurt-no account filed
October 2009FloodBurt-no account filed
May 2008FloodBurt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kossuth 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
Lone Rock5.9 miles7
Bancroft6.6 miles7
Lotts Creek8.3 miles7
Algona8.8 miles8
Hobarton9.4 miles7
Titonka9.8 miles7
Sexton10.5 miles7
Seneca11.2 miles7

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 BurtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914628The 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.