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Fayette, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fayette City. It lies in ZIP code area 52142. It stands on Alexander Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fayette quadrangle. 1,256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Fayette within Fayette County

On record in Fayette

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fayette fell from 1,338 to 1,256 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
20101,338
20201,256-82 (-6%)

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

16 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fayette between 2007 and 2010, burning about 77 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16

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
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources(DEB OPPERMAN) 10389 130TH ST., FAYETTE, I
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fayette: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. 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
Fayette Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vogts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fayette-Templeton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yearous QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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
August 1994HailFayette$50,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFayette$25,000Trees were blown down and roofs were blown off buildings in the central part of Fayette County.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFayette$12,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFayette$10,000Trees were uprooted and some property damage was reported on the Upper Iowa University campus in Fayette.
July 2009HailFayette$10,000Large hail was reported along Highway 150.
April 2000HailFayette$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailFayette$3,500no account filed
April 2000HailFayette$2,500no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindFayette$2,000A shed was rolled over in Fayette.
March 2020Funnel CloudFayette-A funnel cloud was sighted near Fayette. This was likely the remnants of the Maynard tornado.
July 2017Heavy RainFayette-Near Fayette, 7.67 inches of rain fell.
April 2014HailFayette-Quarter to walnut sized hail fell in the city of Fayette.
April 2013Heavy RainFayette-The COOP observer near Fayette reported 2.04 inches of rain.
July 2011Heavy RainFayette-The COOP observer in Fayette reported a total of 4.43 inches of rain at 6 a.m.
August 2011FloodFayette-Water six to eight inches deep covered some streets in Fayette. The thunderstorms dumped 2.76 inches of rain in a very short time to produce the flooding.
July 2009HailFayette-Very heavy rain also occurred.
May 2015HailFayette-no account filed
May 2004HailFayette-no account filed
May 2003HailFayette-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindFayette-no account filed
April 2002HailFayette-no account filed
August 2000HailFayette-no account filed
May 1999HailFayette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Albany2.8 miles12
Lima3.6 miles12
Randalia4.7 miles12
Donnan5.5 miles12
Maynard6.3 miles12
Wadena7.7 miles12
Brainard8.0 miles12
West Union8.3 miles12

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 FayetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933160The 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 456562. 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.