Garnavillo, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Garnavillo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52049. The Survey maps it on the Garnavillo quadrangle. 763 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
On record in Garnavillo
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 5 records
First Congregational Churchlisted 1977
I.O.O.F. Halllisted 1979
Valley Millslisted 1976- Garnavillo Township Bridgelisted 1998
- Garnavillo Township Culvertlisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresGarnavillo grew from 745 to 763 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 | 745 | |
| 2020 | 763 | +18 (+2%) |
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
- 1962 USGS Garnavillo quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Garnavillo between 2009 and 2020, burning about 34 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 October 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Garnavillo: 4 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kann Mine | Lead, Zinc | Unknown | Galena | |
| Roadcut | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Kann Mine | Lead | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Blume Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Johnson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mueller Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garnavillo in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Garnavillo | $20,000 | A pole barn was damaged and numerous trees were knocked down from east of Garnavillo to the Wisconsin state line in the Mississippi River east of Clayton. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | $2,000 | Trees were blown down near Garnavillo. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | - | The public reported damage to a barn via social media east of Elkader. The barn had its door blown in and half of the roof blown off. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Garnavillo | - | In a little over 2 hours from two different rounds of thunderstorms, 4 inches of rain fell in Garnavillo. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Garnavillo | - | Law enforcement officials reported water from heavy rain over several roads around the county. Locations where this flooding occurred included the intersection of King Road and County Road 215, Iowa Avenue just north of the intersection with Highway 128 about 3 miles northeast of Elkader and roads along and near Highway 128 in the Clayton Center area. The Garnavillo Fire Department reported 3.50 inches of rain. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Garnavillo | - | Trained spotters also reported some standing water as 1.5 inches of rail fell. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Garnavillo | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Garnavillo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Garnavillo | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnavillo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Garnavillo | - | 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.
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 Garnavillo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q606938 | 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 456844. 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.






