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Farmersburg, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Farmersburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52047. It lies near Dry Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Farmersburg quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Farmersburg within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

Farmersburg fell from 302 to 271 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
2010302
2020271-31 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Farmersburg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 66 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresDriftless National Wildlife RefugeHOWARD CREEK
1 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Farmersburg: 7 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Giard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Langsgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Saint Olaf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shrader/Twin RocksStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmersburg in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
May 1999HailFarmersburg$30,000no account filed
September 2018FloodFarmersburg$15,000After thunderstorms with locally heavy rain moved across Clayton County, some roads across the county were washed out with a few mudslides also occurring.
May 2000HailFarmersburg$2,500no account filed
August 1999Funnel CloudFarmersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Saint Olaf2.4 miles12
Froelich4.0 miles13
National4.2 miles12
Valdora (historical)4.5 miles13
Giard5.2 miles13
Beulah5.6 miles13
Clayton Center5.8 miles12
Monona6.3 miles13

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 FarmersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1860121The 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 456536. 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.