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Sageville, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dubuque Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52001. It lies near Couler Valley. The Survey maps it on the Dubuque North quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Sageville within Dubuque County

Population over time

2 figures

Sageville fell from 122 to 95 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
2010122
202095-27 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sageville between 1996 and 2011, burning about 27 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
24 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexJDMARSH
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2000Debris and open burning5.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1/2 SOUTH OF HWY 3, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Sageville: 20 past producers, 8 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Becker QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bonson MineZinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerGalena, Limonite, Sphalerite
Red Dog MineZinc, Iron, LeadPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Durango Drybone Mine Ewing DiggingsLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Smithsonite
Fourteenth Street MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Levens Mine North Langworthy MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Composite SectionPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Creek BankPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sageville in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Flash FloodSageville$500,000Amateur radio report received of water over several roads in downtown Dubuque including Central Avenue and Jackson Streets which were closed.
August 1994HailSageville$500,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSageville$90,000The emergency manager reported a roof was partially ripped off of a school.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSageville$50,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSageville$2,000Power lines down on old Sageville Rd on the edge of town.
August 2025HailSageville-Delayed report from Mud Lake Park. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2025Flash FloodSageville-Law Enforcement Officer reported water of over a foot on Iowa Highway 3 near Northwest Arterial that caused the closing of Highway 3. Other roads in the area are flooded too.
July 2024FloodSageville-The Mississippi River gage at Dubuque Lock and Dam rose above its major flood stage of 20.5 feet around 6 PM CST on July 4 and crested at 20.85 feet on July 6. The river fell back below major flood stage around 1 AM CST on July 9.
June 2024Flash FloodSageville-Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding of the roadways.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSageville-A trained spotter report a 2 inch Weeping Willow Sapling snapped in half by the storms.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSageville-The Emergency Manager estimated wind gusts of 52 knots.
October 2019Flash FloodSageville-Rupp Hollow Road in Dubuque was closed due to water over the roadway.
September 2019Flash FloodSageville-U.S. 52 near Sageville was closed around 1 AM due to water over the road. The road was opened a few hours later.
April 2019FloodSageville-The Mississippi River at Dubuque rose above its major flood stage of 20.5 feet at Dubuque Lock and Dam 11 on April 3rd and fell back below the flood stage late in the day on April 9th. There is a preliminary crest of 21.21 feet midday on the 5th through midday on the 6th. This is preliminarily the 3rd highest crest at that location.
July 2017Flash FloodSageville-A public report was received via social media that Sageville Road, north of town was flooded.
June 2014Flash FloodSageville-Law enforcement reported Herber Road near John Deere Road closed due to mudslide. A road was closed due to flooding along the Little Maquoketa River.
June 2013Funnel CloudSageville-A spotter that was located near Kieler Wisconsin observed a funnel cloud to the west of his location.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindSageville-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down several small trees and branches across the north side of Dubuque, IA at 520 pm August 4.
May 1999Flash FloodSageville-Flooding was reported in Sageville.
May 2024HailSageville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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
Frith Spur0.4 miles19
Edmore1.6 miles19
Rose2.1 miles19
Asbury3.5 miles16
Durango3.6 miles16
Eagle Point3.6 miles19
Center Grove4.3 miles20
Dubuque4.3 miles19

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 SagevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925602The 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 460914. 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.