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Saint Olaf, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wagner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52072. It stands on Howard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Olaf quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Saint Olaf within Clayton County

On record in Saint Olaf

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 Olaf fell from 108 to 106 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
2010108
2020106-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Saint Olaf between 2006 and 2020, burning about 63 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 burning6
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresDriftless National Wildlife RefugeHOWARD CREEK
1 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Saint Olaf: 9 unknowns, 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Elkader MineZincPast ProducerSmithsonite
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Bente QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheeseman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Indian Lead MinesLeadOccurrenceGalena
Old Indian MinesLeadPast Producer
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bente/Elkader QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Langsgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clayton 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
Farmersburg2.4 miles12
Clayton Center4.4 miles12
Elkader5.3 miles12
National5.4 miles12
Froelich6.4 miles13
Valdora (historical)6.9 miles13
Gunder7.4 miles12
Giard7.4 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 Saint OlafAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925303The 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 461233. 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.