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Lime Springs, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Forest City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52155. The Survey maps it on the Lime Springs quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Lime Springs within Howard County

On record in Lime Springs

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

Lime Springs fell from 505 to 473 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
2010505
2020473-32 (-6%)

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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lime Springs between 2006 and 2014, burning about 26 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lime Springs: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Davis Corners QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
GansenStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mauer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tank Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lime Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLime Springs$5,000A cold front moved southeast out of the Dakotas into Iowa during the late afternoon and evening hours. Parameters for severe weather were weak. The instability was there, but moisture, inflow, and shear were marginal. A mesoscale convective system developed over Minnesota during the afternoon hours. As the evening progressed, the storms developed toward the southwest. Eventually the complex overspread about the northeast two thirds of Iowa. Some severe weather was reported with the storms, but it was limited. Since the storms occurred across the midnight hour, a few reports were included in the June Storm Data. Dime-size and slightly larger hail fell in west central Iowa after the midnight hour. Minor damage occurred in Arthur as one storm produced winds of nearly 60 MPH. High winds in the Ida Grove area caused damage to two homes there as trees were toppled onto the houses. There were other spotty reports of winds near 60 MPH from around the state, but they were quite isolated. The storms continued east and south across the state during the night, but the system had transformed from a severe weather producer to a general rain event. Urban flooding occurred in parts of Ida County. Local street flooding in Ida Grove was as high as the car bumpers. As the thunderstorms moved across Des Moines, lightning struck one of the buildings downtown. The Equitable Insurance Building was struck by lightning on the 20th floor. A decorative block was shattered and fell to the ground. Lightning struck a tree in Manson. A large branch was broken off and fell through the second floor window of a house there. Minor roof damage was reported in addition to the broken window.

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Lidtke Mill1.1 miles7
Forest City (historical)3.4 miles7
Bonair5.0 miles7
Chester5.1 miles7
Davis Corners5.5 miles7
Saratoga8.5 miles7
Florenceville8.6 miles7
Cresco10.0 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 Lime SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1929915The 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 458350. 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.