Littleport, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cox Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52043. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Littleport quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.
On record in Littleport
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
- Dry Run Bridgelisted 1998
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Elkader quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Littleport quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Littleport between 2006 and 2007, burning about 51 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/undetermined | 7 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 December 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Littleport: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spellman Farm | Lead | Occurrence | Galena | |
| Quarry | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Mederville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Thurn Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Eldon Kruse Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Farmer Brothers | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Osborne Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pust and Thurn | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littleport in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 10 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleport | $20,000 | Two barns were blown down and destroyed by a severe thunderstorm wind gust on Grandview Road midway between Elkader and Garber. |
| April 2010 | Flood | Littleport | $5,000 | Two rounds of slow moving thunderstorms on April 6th into the 7th produced locally heavy rains across central and southern Clayton county. Reports from cooperative observers indicated around 3.5 inches of rain fell at Strawberry Point and just over 4 inches fell near Elkader. This heavy rain pushed the Volga River out of its banks at Littleport for a short period on the 6th and 7th. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleport | $2,000 | Trees were blown down east of Littleport. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleport | $1,500 | Power lines blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleport | $1,200 | no account filed |
| February 2023 | Flood | Littleport | - | Runoff from the combination of rainfall and snow melt pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 11.59 feet. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Littleport | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Littleport. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Littleport | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport. The river crested almost two and a half feet above the flood stage at 14.4 feet. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Littleport | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport. The river crested over nine feet above the flood stage at 21.13 feet. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Littleport | - | Heavy rains across portions of northeast Iowa pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport. The river crested at 12.71 feet, less than a foot above the flood stage. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Littleport | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport. The river crested at 15.42 feet, almost three and a half feet over the flood stage. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Littleport | - | The Volga River at Littleport, IA rose above the flood stage of 12 feet on March 11th, and crested at 2:45 a.m. on March 12th at 13.58 feet. The river dropped below flood stage later in the day on March 12th.||Only minor flooding was observed as the river rose above flood stage with no damage reported. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Littleport | - | Locally heavy rains pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport on July 7th and 8th. The river exceeded the flood stage by over one foot cresting at 13.19 feet. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Littleport | - | Locally heavy rains pushed the Volga River out of its banks in Littleport from July 23rd through the 25th. The river exceeded the flood stage by over seven feet cresting at 19.23 feet. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Littleport | - | The Volga River at Littleport crested at 14.32 feet during the early morning hours of April 27th. Flood stage is 12 feet. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Littleport | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Littleport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2913904 | The 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 458533. 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.






