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Luana, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52156. The Survey maps it on the Monona quadrangle. 301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Luana within Clayton County

On record in Luana

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

Luana grew from 269 to 301 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
2010269
2020301+32 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Luana between 2014 and 2019, burning about 78 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Recreation and ceremony15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesLUANA FIRE DEPT.
11 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Luana: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Doerring QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gisleson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swenson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luana in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLuana$50,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLuana$30,000Near Luana, the winds lifted up a barn and dropped it several feet away. Some cattle were trapped inside the destroyed barn.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLuana$3,000A few trees down and power lines knocked down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLuana$2,000Road signs were blown down east of Postville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLuana$2,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLuana-Reports of trees and power lines down across northern Clayton County were relayed by law enforcement.
June 2014Flash FloodLuana-Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over roads in various sections of Clayton County.
April 2009Flash FloodLuana-Law Enforcement officials reported a mud slide on Highway 76 one mile north of Marquette and flooded rural roadways in Clayton County.
June 2022HailLuana-no account filed
June 2022HailLuana-no account filed
August 2018HailLuana-no account filed
May 2008HailLuana-no account filed
May 2008HailLuana-no account filed
May 2008HailLuana-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
Hardin2.1 miles13
Ridley2.9 miles11
Monona3.5 miles13
Valdora (historical)6.3 miles13
Watson6.6 miles13
Gunder6.9 miles12
Froelich7.9 miles13
Beulah8.1 miles13

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 LuanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q726472The 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 458671. 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.