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McGregor, Iowa

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52157. It sits by Point Ann. The Survey maps it on the Prairie du Chien quadrangle. 742 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

McGregor within Clayton County

On record in McGregor

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

McGregor fell from 871 to 742 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
2010871
2020742-129 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of McGregor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUTTERFLY ROCKET
19 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVINEYARD FIRE
16 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyPOPPLETOWN FUZZ 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton 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 McGregor: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Sny Magill MinesLeadPast ProducerGalena
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Prairie Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pretitti PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marquette QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Mcgregor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGregor 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindMcGregor$50,000no 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
McGregor Heights1.1 miles20
Marquette1.8 miles20
West Yards1.9 miles20
Giard Station (historical)4.7 miles13
Giard5.7 miles13
Beulah6.7 miles13
National7.3 miles12
Froelich7.4 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 McGregorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q281585The 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 458913. 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.