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Elk Run Heights, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Waterloo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50707. It stands on Elk Run. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo South quadrangle. 1,069 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Elk Run Heights within Black Hawk County

Population over time

2 figures

Elk Run Heights fell from 1,117 to 1,069 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
20101,117
20201,069-48 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Elk Run Heights between 2001 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1690 HWY 218 AND 27, IA
30 March 2020Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 November 2001Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 November 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 October 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Elk Run Heights: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Iron. 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
Pint's QuarryFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, IronPast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Morgan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pints QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raymond MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Raymond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hawkeye Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk 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
Hilltop1.0 miles11
Raymar1.2 miles9
Evansdale1.3 miles11
Raymond2.0 miles9
Cedar Knoll Park3.1 miles11
Armour3.2 miles10
Eastgate Estate Park3.2 miles11
Washburn3.9 miles11

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 Elk Run HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933401The 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 456301. 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.