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Sharpsburg, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50862. The Survey maps it on the Gravity quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Sharpsburg within Taylor County

Population over time

2 figures

Sharpsburg fell from 89 to 72 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
201089
202072-17 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sharpsburg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 263 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Debris and open burning200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burning31 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpsburg in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$55,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$50,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$30,000An outbuilding destroyed with walls of the structure falling on the adjacent home. Images relayed via broadcast media on social media. Delayed report, time estimated via social media.
June 2008Flash FloodSharpsburg$10,000Several inches of water was reported to have crossed Sherwood Ave. Minor damage to new road rock that repaired water damage from earlier in the month.
April 2018HailSharpsburg-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Sharpsburg-Brief tornado just northeast of Sharpsburg. Wall cloud continues to rotate as it moves slowly northeast.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Merle Junction3.0 miles8
Conway3.9 miles12
Gravity6.1 miles8
Bushville6.3 miles8
Lenox6.9 miles8
Holt8.1 miles8
Clearfield8.8 miles8
Ladoga9.1 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 SharpsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925345The 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 461541. 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.

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.