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Saint Charles, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50240. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. 640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Saint Charles within Madison County

On record in Saint Charles

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Charles fell from 653 to 640 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
2010653
2020640-13 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Saint Charles between 2006 and 2017, burning about 706 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
Debris and open burning5
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
14 June 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined320 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesDONAR
21 March 2015Debris and open burning13 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2016Debris and open burning1.2 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesVIRGINIA TOWNSHIP
13 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined346 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Hanley1.3 miles9
Bevington5.1 miles9
Patterson5.6 miles9
Truro5.8 miles9
East Peru7.5 miles9
Tileville7.9 miles9
Old Peru8.1 miles9
Buffalo (historical)10.4 miles11

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 CharlesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q781101The 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 460964. 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.