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Saint Marys, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50229. The Survey maps it on the Martensdale quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Saint Marys within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Marys fell from 127 to 108 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
2010127
2020108-19 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saint Marys between 2006 and 2017, burning about 37 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
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
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 Warren 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
West Saint Marys0.5 miles11
Wick2.6 miles11
Conger3.4 miles9
Martensdale4.5 miles11
Churchville6.2 miles9
South River Crossing (historical)6.3 miles10
Prole7.0 miles11
Spring Hill8.4 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 MarysAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925273The 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 461154. 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.