BlockOtranto, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otranto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50472. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Ansgar quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Otranto
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Otranto Bridgelisted 1998 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresOtranto grew from 27 to 27 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27 | |
| 2020 | 27 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS St. Ansgar quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Charles City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Otranto between 2009 and 2011, burning about 3 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 4894 485TH, IA |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Otranto: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falk Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pope Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otranto in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Otranto | $4,500,000 | Heavy rain produced wide spread flash flooding across much of Mitchell County. Numerous roads around Stacyville were under water by early evening and sand bagging occurred along the Little Cedar River. U.S. Highway 218 was closed by flooding between Osage and St. Ansgar and State Highway 9 was closed east and west of Osage. West of Osage, two culverts were washed away, causing a section of Highway 9 to collapse. A total of 22 roads were closed, 6 to 8 bridges washed out and approximately 90 percent of the gravel roads across the entire county were covered with water. Damage to the roads was estimated to be around $4.5 million. In addition to all the road damage, a railroad bridge north of St. Ansgar was also washed out. The Stacyville fire department reported between 6 and 7 inches of rain had fallen during the mid and late afternoon hours. The heavy rains also took out about 15 percent of the county's corn crop. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Otranto | $750,000 | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Little Cedar River out of its banks. County roads A46 and T64 near New Haven had to be closed because of the flood waters. Spring Creek also went out if its banks causing U.S. Highway 18 to be closed near Osage. A dam on the Cedar River near Mitchell sustained damage from the flood waters. Numerous gravel roads across the county suffered washouts. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Otranto | $220,000 | Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding in a large share of the county. The flood waters covered numerous roads throughout the county. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Otranto | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Otranto | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Otranto | - | Flood waters covered several rural roads in the western sections of Mitchell County. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Otranto | - | Minor flooding of low lying areas across portions of Mitchell county, as well as along the Cedar River and other small streams and creeks, occurred from the evening of March 11th through the early morning hours of March 13th. Local campgrounds and RV parks, including the Ortranto, Stacyville, Interstate and Halverson parks along the Cedar River observed flooding. Also, the intersection of Highways 219 and 9, east of Osage was closed for a time on the evening of March 12th, due to water over-top of the road. ||Ice jams were reported along the Cedar River, which swept trees, shrubs, grass and some trash downstream. For a time, there was concern for the safety of the Mitchell dam near the city of Mitchell. No damage was reported with the ice jams however. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stacyville Junction | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Mona | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Carpenter | 3.4 miles | 7 | |
| Toeterville | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Saint Ansgar | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Stacyville | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Mitchell | 11.3 miles | 7 | |
| Dixie (historical) | 13.0 miles | 7 |
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 Otranto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2884803 | The 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 459920. 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.