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Lanesboro, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51451. The Survey maps it on the Lanesboro quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Lanesboro within Carroll County

On record in Lanesboro

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

Lanesboro fell from 121 to 119 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
2010121
2020119-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lanesboro between 2006 and 2014, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
16 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources16078 VOYAGER, IA
15 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1986 VALE RD, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lanesboro: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lanesboro Pits 1 and 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lanesboro Pits 3 and 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcclue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pound PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanesboro in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2007FloodLanesboro$250,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$10,000Power lines down.
July 2008HailLanesboro$5,000no account filed
September 2010HailLanesboro$3,000no account filed
March 2019FloodLanesboro-Public reported widespread ponding in low lying and poor drainage areas. Report came via social media.
August 2018Heavy RainLanesboro-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 4.33 inches over the last 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Benan (historical)4.8 miles8
Lidderdale6.4 miles8
Kentner7.1 miles8
Glidden9.0 miles8
Ralston10.3 miles8
Mount Carmel11.7 miles8
Carroll12.4 miles8
Maple River14.2 miles8

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 LanesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930310The 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 458219. 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.