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Frederika, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Frederika Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50631. The Survey maps it on the Frederika quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Frederika within Bremer County

Population over time

2 figures

Frederika grew from 183 to 204 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
2010183
2020204+21 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Frederika between 2009 and 2020, burning about 128 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2175 290TH, NEW HAMPTON, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bremer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Frederika: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Frederika QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bremer County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederika in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
June 2018FloodFrederika$50,000Minor flooding was reported along the Wapsipinicon River throughout the county and especially at Tripoli and along portions of the East Fork Wapsipinicon River throughout the county.
September 2016FloodFrederika$50,000Iowa DOT reported US Highway 63 closed to southbound traffic due to flooding. Detour in place.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFrederika$25,000Numerous trees blown down in the town. One home had a tree go through the roof. There were no thunderstorms in the area, as they were to the north, but the strong gust front from the storms up north produced the damage.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindFrederika$25,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindFrederika$5,000no account filed
July 1995HailFrederika$5,000no account filed
August 2021HailFrederika-Quarter sized hail in progress with heavy rain at time of report. End time estimated by radar.
May 2020Flash FloodFrederika-Emergency manager reported water running over gravel roads across the northern and eastern parts of the county.
June 2013HailFrederika-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bremer 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
Seigel3.8 miles9
Old Tripoli4.5 miles9
Tripoli5.7 miles9
Roxie6.2 miles9
Spring Fountain7.6 miles9
Bremer8.8 miles9
Horton9.2 miles9
Artesian10.7 miles10

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 FrederikaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932747The 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 456752. 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.