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Colesburg, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Colony Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52035. The Survey maps it on the Colesburg quadrangle. 386 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Colesburg within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Colesburg fell from 404 to 386 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
2010404
2020386-18 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Colesburg between 2006 and 2009, burning about 25 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/undetermined4

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
26 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Colesburg: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
Hintz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Colesburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tibbott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colesburg in 22 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindColesburg$2,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindColesburg-The county emergency manager reported a local wind sensor measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindColesburg-The Fire Department reported that a 1 foot diameter branch from a 40 year old maple tree was broken off.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindColesburg-The Fire Department reported that a steel roof was blown off of a building across the the street from the Fire Station.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColesburg-Wind speed reported by the Fire Department and relayed by the Emergency manager.
April 2008HailColesburg-Nickel size hail was observed in Colesburg.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindColesburg-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at 65 mph 2 miles west of Colesburg.
June 2008Flash FloodColesburg-Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding of County Road X47 just south of Colesburg, IA during the evening of June 8. The road was impassible due to the amount of water over it.
July 2008HailColesburg-Golf ball-sized hail fell in Colesburg, IA at 835 pm July 10.
April 2001HailColesburg-Quarter sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
May 2001HailColesburg-Quarter sized hail reported by emergency management.
May 2013HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2013HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2013HailColesburg-no account filed
June 2013HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2004HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2004HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2004HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2000HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2000HailColesburg-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindColesburg-no account filed
May 2000HailColesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Holy Cross3.3 miles12
Petersburg5.9 miles12
Greeley8.3 miles12
Almoral8.5 miles12
Almoral Siding (historical)9.3 miles12
Oneida10.4 miles12
Earlville11.5 miles12
Dutchtown12.6 miles12

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 ColesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1834711The 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 455526. 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.