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Osterdock, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52052. It stands on Price Branch. The Survey maps it on the Colesburg quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Osterdock within Clayton County

On record in Osterdock

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

Osterdock fell from 59 to 43 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
201059
202043-16 (-27%)

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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Osterdock between 2006 and 2009, burning about 2 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/undetermined3

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
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa 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

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Osterdock: 12 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hintz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
OutcropPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burtletts DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Guttenberg MinesLeadPast Producer
OccurrenceLeadPast ProducerGalena
Anderegg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Boege QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osterdock in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindOsterdock$30,000Trees were blown down and one home sustained severe roof damage in Osterdock.
July 2017Heavy RainOsterdock$25,000South of Osterdock, and estimated 8.20 inches of rain fell.
July 2017HailOsterdock$8,000Golf ball sized hail was reported south of Osterdock.
September 2016HailOsterdock$5,000Golfball sized hail fell southeast of Garnavillo.
July 2011FloodOsterdock$5,000Water from the Turkey River went over several roads near Osterdock causing some minor damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOsterdock$2,000Trees were blown down in Osterdock.
April 2025HailOsterdock-The public reported half dollar sized hail 4 miles south-southwest of Osterdock.
March 2020Funnel CloudOsterdock-A funnel cloud was sighted southwest of Guttenberg.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOsterdock-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph occurred southeast of Garnavillo.

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
Snefs1.0 miles13
Fairview4.6 miles13
Guttenberg4.7 miles13
Millville5.0 miles14
Updegraff5.4 miles13
Garber5.6 miles12
Ceres6.2 miles12
Elkport6.4 miles12

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 OsterdockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927871The 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 459913. 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.