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Luxemburg, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52056. The Survey maps it on the New Vienna quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Luxemburg within Dubuque County

Population over time

2 figures

Luxemburg grew from 240 to 245 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
2010240
2020245+5 (+2%)

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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Luxemburg between 2006 and 2018, burning about 122 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/undetermined11
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
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources31002 NEW VIENNA RD, IOWA
14 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luxemburg: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Hermsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wpa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luxemburg in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 2010LightningLuxemburg$250,000A lightning strike was the likely cause of an early morning fire August 9 that caused significant damage to the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Luxemburg, IA. Authorities were notified at 236 am CDT that flames were coming out of the church steeple.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindLuxemburg$500Public report that wind tore off a shed door; dime size hail also occurred.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLuxemburg-Broadcast media reported 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branch blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLuxemburg-Power lines reported down between Luxemburg and Holy Cross.
December 2015Tornado (EF1)Luxemburg-An EF-1 tornado near Luxemburg Iowa, with estimate peak winds of 90 mph, damaged trees and outbuildings on two farms along a 1.1 mile path that was 25 yards wide. Debris from one of the outbuildings was blown into a farm house.
July 2008HailLuxemburg-Golf ball-sized hail fell 2 miles north of Luxemburg, IA around 846 pm July 10.
April 2006HailLuxemburg-dime size hail
May 2000HailLuxemburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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
Holy Cross4.2 miles15
New Vienna4.3 miles12
Mekee7.8 miles12
Bankston8.3 miles15
Summit Village Dyersville Park8.5 miles12
Dyersville8.6 miles12
Cottage Hill8.6 miles15
O'Neill9.9 miles15

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 LuxemburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1915153The 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 458690. 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.