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Sabula, Iowa

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52070. It stands on L Esmay Slough. The Survey maps it on the Savanna quadrangle. 506 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 592 feet above sea level.

Sabula within Jackson County

On record in Sabula

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sabula fell from 576 to 506 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
2010576
2020506-70 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Sabula between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeISLAND 199
1 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeSETBACK LEVEE
6 April 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeGOOSEPOINT
5 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeESMAY SLOUGH
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources31
23 April 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeDUCK BLIND 80
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources38
1 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Sabula: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Lloyde Haas QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Schultz QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Old Nichols PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trenkamp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Turner Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Marshall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Savanna Township Hwy DeptStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Teeds Grove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabula in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSabula$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew a pontoon boat onto a car in Sabula, IA around 522 pm June 27.
July 2025Flash FloodSabula-Jackson county 911 relayed a report of flash flood damage in the town of Sabula. Sabula fire department was reportedly pumping water out of houses.
May 2014HailSabula-Golf ball sized hail fell in Sabula, IA at 823 pm CDT May 20.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSabula-Corn fields damaged.
June 1999Funnel CloudSabula-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSabula-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Samoa1.3 miles24
Sterling4.2 miles13
Lainsville4.4 miles23
Twin Springs7.2 miles15
Reeceville7.6 miles15
Miles7.7 miles13
Green Island9.7 miles15
Van Buren10.2 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 SabulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925720The 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 460877. 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.