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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.

Garnavillo within Clayton County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Garnavillo 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.

YearPeople Change
2010745
2020763+18 (+2%)

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

6 since 2009

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
3 May 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kann MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Kann MineLeadPast ProducerGalena
Blume QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mueller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo$500,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo$50,000no account filed
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Garnavillo$20,000A 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 1999Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo$2,000Trees were blown down near Garnavillo.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo-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 2012Heavy RainGarnavillo-In a little over 2 hours from two different rounds of thunderstorms, 4 inches of rain fell in Garnavillo.
May 2010FloodGarnavillo-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 2010HailGarnavillo-Trained spotters also reported some standing water as 1.5 inches of rail fell.
July 2017HailGarnavillo-no account filed
August 2013HailGarnavillo-no account filed
June 2011HailGarnavillo-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGarnavillo-no account filed
June 2002Funnel CloudGarnavillo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Ceres4.2 miles12
Clayton Center4.9 miles12
Clayton5.3 miles14
National6.3 miles12
Eckards7.0 miles13
Motor7.4 miles12
Communia8.6 miles12
Garber8.8 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 GarnavilloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q606938The 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.