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North Buena Vista, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Buena Vista Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52066. It lies near Panther Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cassville quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

North Buena Vista within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

North Buena Vista fell from 121 to 109 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
2010121
2020109-12 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of North Buena Vista between 2008 and 2018, burning about 256 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY BOTTOMS
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresPort Louisa National Wildlife RefugeTURKEY RIVER
23 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2008Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY RIVER ARSON
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY RIVER BOTTOMS WF
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources37649 ORANGE AVE, GUTTENBERG, IA
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY RIVER BOTTOMS WILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Buena Vista: 10 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, 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
Cassville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fitzpatrick MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
QuarryPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Buena Vista MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Fitzpatrick MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Fitzpatrick MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Julius Wiest QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
North Buena Vista SubdistrictLead, ZincPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC
Schmidt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lunders DiggingsLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Buena Vista in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 hail, 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Buena Vista-Law enforcement estimated a 75 mph wind gust near North Buena Vista.
July 2017HailNorth Buena Vista-Quarter sized hail fell in North Buena Vista.
March 2017HailNorth Buena Vista-Quarter sized hail was reported in North Buena Vista.

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
Turkey River4.1 miles14
Millville6.4 miles14
Guttenberg10.5 miles13
Snefs10.6 miles13
Osterdock11.3 miles13
Fairview13.8 miles13
Eckards14.5 miles13
Updegraff14.9 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 North Buena VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1814462The 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 459566. 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.