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Lawler, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stapleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52154. The Survey maps it on the Lawler quadrangle. 406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Lawler within Chickasaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Lawler fell from 439 to 406 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
2010439
2020406-33 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lawler between 2010 and 2013, burning about 4 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/undetermined2

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
30 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2580 200TH ST., NEW HAMPTON, IOWA
24 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lawler: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Love QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blazek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Busta PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Chickasaw County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawler in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009HailLawler$50,000Crops in approximately 15 sections of land north of Lawler were stripped and destroyed. Also, some window, siding and roof damage was reported. Areas impacted were between State Highway 24 and County Road B33 and a corridor 2 miles west and east of County Road V56. Hail in the entire area was estimated between 1 and 2 inches in diameter.
September 2016Flash FloodLawler$35,000Flood waters covered State Highway 24 northeast of Lawler. Many other roads across Chickasaw County were reported to be under water as well.
May 1996HailLawler$25,000no account filed
June 2009Flash FloodLawler$20,000Water covered roads in several locations, including County Road V56 and Vanderbilt Avenue, as well as along 190th Street. In addition, some farmer's dikes were reported washed out.
June 2009HailLawler$20,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLawler$15,000Power lines and trees were downed in Lawler.
May 2000HailLawler$4,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLawler$2,000Trees were blown down in Lawler.
July 2023HailLawler-Public reported ping-pong ball sized hail near New Hampton.
July 2020HailLawler-Crops were damaged by quarter sized hail east of Lawler.
July 2016Flash FloodLawler-Locally heavy rain caused numerous washouts on Roanoke Avenue between 200th and 270th Streets in eastern Chickasaw County.
March 2011HailLawler-no account filed
April 2002HailLawler-no account filed
April 2002HailLawler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chickasaw 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
Jacksonville4.6 miles7
Little Turkey4.8 miles7
Nansen5.4 miles7
Reilly Settlement6.1 miles7
Boyd7.0 miles7
Fredericksburg7.7 miles9
Bethany Hall8.8 miles7
Saude8.8 miles7

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 LawlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q942768The 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 458247. 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.