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.
Population over time
2 figuresFarmersburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 302 | |
| 2020 | 271 | -31 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1902 USGS Elkader quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Farmersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Driftless National Wildlife Refuge | HOWARD CREEK |
| 1 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roadcut | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Giard Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Langsgaard Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Saint Olaf Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Shrader/Twin Rocks | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Smith Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Farmersburg | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Flood | Farmersburg | $15,000 | After thunderstorms with locally heavy rain moved across Clayton County, some roads across the county were washed out with a few mudslides also occurring. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Farmersburg | $2,500 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Farmersburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Olaf | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Froelich | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| National | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Valdora (historical) | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Giard | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Beulah | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Clayton Center | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Monona | 6.3 miles | 13 |
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 Farmersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1860121 | 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 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.






