Earlville, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oneida Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52041. The Survey maps it on the Earlville quadrangle. 716 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.
On record in Earlville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Ruth Suckow Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresEarlville fell from 812 to 716 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 | 812 | |
| 2020 | 716 | -96 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1900 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Farley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Earlville between 2007 and 2014, burning about 51 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1551 197TH ST., IA |
| 28 October 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 October 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Earlville: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Goedkin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Schulte Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| White Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earlville in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew some trees down, blew some windows in, and caused some roof damage in Earlville, IA around 815 am June 19. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a tree down near the intersection of Stow Street and Prospect Street in Earlville, IA around 240 pm July 24. In addition, a tree fell onto the Orcutt residence. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Earlville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | Roof blown off a house. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | Emergency manager reported 5 power poles down along county Highway X47 southeast of Earlville. There was also damage to crops in the same area along with several branches down. Winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | A trained spotter reported a barn roof blown off about 7 miles southeast of Earlville. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Earlville | - | Hail the size of a quarter fell in Earlville, IA around 236 pm July 24. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Earlville | - | Quarter-sized hail fell for five minutes covering the ground in Earlville, IA around 245 pm July 24. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Earlville | - | One inch hail was measured in Earlville. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Earlville | - | Spotter measured hail the size of nickels in Earlville. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Earlville | - | A spotter reported hail the size of nickels 1W Earlville. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Earlville | - | Nickel sized hail reported by trained storm spotter. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almoral Siding (historical) | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Almoral | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Delaware | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gilt Edge | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Delhi | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Petersburg | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Oneida | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Greeley | 8.1 miles | 12 |
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 Earlville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933537 | 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 456106. 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.







