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Dixon, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52745. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Dixon within Scott County

Population over time

2 figures

Dixon fell from 247 to 202 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
2010247
2020202-45 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dixon in 2014, burning about 150 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 burning1

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
2 April 2014Debris and open burning150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dixon: 3 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
Koester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Parks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixon in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 flood, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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
June 2010FloodDixon$500,000Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Wapsipinicon River at De Witt going above the moderate flood stage level of 11.5 feet on June 17 around 630 am. After briefly falling back below 11.5 feet, it crested above the major flood stage around 13.2 feet around 7 pm June 22. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 7 pm June 28.
August 2009FloodDixon$500,000no account filed
May 2010FloodDixon$250,000Heavy rains during the second week of May resulted in the Wapsipinicon River at De Witt going above the moderate flood stage level of 11.5 feet on May 18 around 1 pm. It crested around 11.9 feet around 1 am May 21. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 1 am May 23.
July 2010FloodDixon$250,000no account filed
July 2010FloodDixon$250,000no account filed
July 2010FloodDixon$150,000no account filed
May 2009FloodDixon$125,000Heavy rains during the last week of April resulted in the Wapsipinicon River near De Witt going above the moderate flood stage level of 11.5 feet around 6 pm on May 2. It crested around 11.89 feet around 11 am on May 4. It fell back below its moderate flood stage level around 1 am May 6.
August 2010FloodDixon$125,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDixon$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down a power pole and some large trees from Dixon, IA area to just north of Long Grove, IA from about 530 pm CDT to about 545 pm CDT May 22. A tree fell on a barn and fence destroying them.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDixon$10,000A 3 foot diameter cottonwood limb was torn off its parent tree and dropped on a nearby house. Extensive damage was done to the house.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDixon$10,000Winds in excess of 80 mph destroyed a barn. Several trees were uprooted and outbuildings suffered heavy damage. Two pickup trucks were also damaged.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDixon$10,000no account filed
April 1995HailDixon$3,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDixon$2,000Intense winds uprooted a 20 foot pine tree. Numerous tree limbs were downed and a basketball hoop attached to a garage came loose and smashed through the windshield of an automobile..
May 2005Thunderstorm WindDixon$500several limbs down from a live maple.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDixon-A large tree was blown down, with other small branches throughout town. The time was based on radar data.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Dixon-A tornado developed southeast of Dixon in Scott County and moved northeast into Clinton County. The intermittent tornado path was around 15 miles, to just east of Grand Mound, before lifting near Highway 61. The tornado caused minor tree and power pole damage, as well as damage to an outbuilding. The tornado was rated EF-1 with max winds around 90 mph. There were no injuries.
June 2022HailDixon-Small limbs were also reported blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDixon-Measured wind speed.
May 2019FloodDixon-The Wapsipinicon River at DeWitt 4S (DEWI4) rose above its major flood stage of 12.5 feet during the afternoon of May 28th and continued into June. The river crested in May 30th around 6 AM at 13.68 feet, before falling slowly through May 31st.
October 2018FloodDixon-An extended flood took place on the lower Wapsipinicon River October, 2018. Major flooding was ongoing at the De Witt (4 miles south) gage, from September at the start of the month of October and continued with only a short 1 day break on the 5th, all the way to October 21 at 1 AM when it fell below major flood stage of 12.5 feet. The river crested at 13.9 feet at 730 AM, October 7th.
February 2017HailDixon-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2017HailDixon-Spotter reported a mix of stones between the size of dimes and quarters.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDixon-The public reported damage 2 miles south of Dixon on County Y40. Several outbuildings and trees were blown down on a farm with debris blown into nearby fields. The damage was very localized.
June 2014FloodDixon-Heavy rains during the second half of June resulted in the Wapsipinicon River at De Witt going above the major flood stage level of 12.5 feet on June 26 around 550 pm CDT. It crested at a new record high level around 14.32 feet around 145 pm July 2. It fell below the major flood stage level around 1 am CDT July 11.
June 2010Flash FloodDixon-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of Mud Creek between Dixon and Donahue and also a local drainage creek in Buffalo.
May 2008FloodDixon-The Wapsipinicon River near De Witt was over its major flood stage level from 12:00 am on May 1 until 3:00 am May 5.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDixon-A corn field was flattened and some small branches were blown down.
August 2007HailDixon-Hail the size of a quarter fell just south of Dixon, IA.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDixon-Corn flattened.
April 2013FloodDixon-no account filed
August 2011HailDixon-no account filed
May 2006FloodDixon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
New Dixon0.8 miles16
Big Rock3.0 miles15
Plainview5.1 miles16
New Liberty5.4 miles15
Hickory Grove6.3 miles18
Donahue6.6 miles18
Maysville7.4 miles18
Noel (historical)10.1 miles15

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 DixonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934000The 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 455927. 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.