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Oakland Acres, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50112. The Survey maps it on the Oakland Acres quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Oakland Acres within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland Acres grew from 156 to 176 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
2010156
2020176+20 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Acres between 2006 and 2016, burning about 89 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 burning7
Smoking1

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
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources20TH ST. , IA
4 May 2016Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesKELLOGG
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Acres: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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
Sully Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chicago R.I. and Pacific Rr QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Jackson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morgan QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Turner (historical)1.0 miles8
Kellogg4.6 miles9
Rushville7.3 miles8
Newburg7.4 miles8
Killduff8.8 miles8
Murphy9.1 miles9
Sully9.7 miles8
Lynnville9.8 miles8

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 Oakland AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926280The 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 464678. 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.