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Fort Atkinson, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52144. It stands on Rogers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Atkinson quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Fort Atkinson within Winneshiek County

On record in Fort Atkinson

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Atkinson fell from 349 to 312 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
2010349
2020312-37 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson between 2008 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Natural1

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 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bullerman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ft Atkinson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Horseshoe Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Steinlage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek 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
Festina3.8 miles11
Twin Springs4.1 miles12
Spillville4.4 miles12
Calmar4.6 miles12
Conover5.4 miles12
Jackson Junction5.6 miles7
Navan7.6 miles7
Ossian8.9 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 Fort AtkinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000175The 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 456681. 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.