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Saint Ansgar, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Ansgar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50472. It stands on Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Ansgar quadrangle. 1,160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Saint Ansgar within Mitchell County

On record in Saint Ansgar

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Ansgar grew from 1,107 to 1,160 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
20101,107
20201,160+53 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Saint Ansgar between 2009 and 2010, 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/undetermined4

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
11 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources4017 GLASS AVE, ST. ANSGAR, IOWA
30 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1755 HW 105, ST. ANSGAR, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell 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 Saint Ansgar: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
BlakestadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duenow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Falk QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mitchell 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
Toeterville4.7 miles7
Stacyville Junction4.7 miles7
Mitchell4.7 miles7
Carpenter5.7 miles7
Otranto6.6 miles7
Mona7.6 miles7
Stacyville8.3 miles7
Dixie (historical)8.5 miles7

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 Saint AnsgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998905The 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 460929. 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.