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Libertyville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52567. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Libertyville within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Libertyville fell from 315 to 274 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
2010315
2020274-41 (-13%)

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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Libertyville in 2006, burning about 3 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/undetermined1

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
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Libertyville: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Libertyville in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLibertyville$50,000Barn collapsed due to high wind, while another building was completely removed from property on Indigo Boulevard. Garage destroyed, trees blown down and camper overturned on South 255th Street between Fairfield and Libertyville. Several vehicles also damaged at an auto body shop.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLibertyville$30,000Trees down with power out
March 2006HailLibertyville$5,000Hail estimated at 1 inch
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLibertyville$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Tree branches blown down. The time was based on radar data.
June 2021Flash FloodLibertyville-Sheriff office received report of Douds Road flooded near Lick Creek at 902 pm.
June 2021Flash FloodLibertyville-A deputy reported water on Grasstree Avenue north of 265th Street near the bridge.
June 2021HailLibertyville-Hail covered the ground.
May 2020Flash FloodLibertyville-A trained spotter reported the Cedar Creek rapidly came out of it's banks and flooded nearby low lying areas.
September 2011HailLibertyville-Quarter sized hail fell about 3 miles south of Libertyville, IA at 152 pm CDT September 3.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Winds estimated to be 60 mph blew down some branches just south of Libertyville, IA.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Trees down, crops flattened, and several homes damaged.
August 2002HailLibertyville-Golfball sized hail reported near the intersection of Ivy Avenue and 255th Street near Libertyville.
June 2021HailLibertyville-no account filed
June 2002HailLibertyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Ellmaker2.0 miles7
Whitefield (historical)2.6 miles7
Bernhart (historical)3.9 miles7
Collett5.3 miles11
Fairfield5.9 miles7
Batavia6.7 miles7
Brookville7.1 miles7
Maharishi Vedic City7.2 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 LibertyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q607876The 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 458333. 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.