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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.

Littleport within Clayton County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined7

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
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Spellman FarmLeadOccurrenceGalena
QuarryPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
QuarryPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Mederville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thurn Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eldon Kruse QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Farmer BrothersStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osborne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pust and ThurnStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

16 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2007Thunderstorm WindLittleport$20,000Two barns were blown down and destroyed by a severe thunderstorm wind gust on Grandview Road midway between Elkader and Garber.
April 2010FloodLittleport$5,000Two 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 2022Thunderstorm WindLittleport$2,000Trees were blown down east of Littleport.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLittleport$1,500Power lines blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLittleport$1,200no account filed
February 2023FloodLittleport-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 2022HailLittleport-Quarter sized hail was reported in Littleport.
June 2017FloodLittleport-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 2017FloodLittleport-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 2016FloodLittleport-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 2015FloodLittleport-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 2010FloodLittleport-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 2010FloodLittleport-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 2010FloodLittleport-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 2009FloodLittleport-The Volga River at Littleport crested at 14.32 feet during the early morning hours of April 27th. Flood stage is 12 feet.
June 2002HailLittleport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Communia2.5 miles12
Mederville2.9 miles12
Motor3.7 miles12
Osborne4.8 miles12
Elkport5.0 miles12
Garber5.8 miles12
Wood7.0 miles12
Elkader7.1 miles12

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 LittleportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2913904The 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.