Spillville, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calmar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52168. It stands on Wonder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Atkinson quadrangle. 385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Spillville within Winneshiek County

On record in Spillville

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 2 records

Wenzil Taylor Buildinglisted 1979
Big Stone Mills

Population over time

2 figures

Spillville grew from 367 to 385 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	367
2020	385	+18 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1906 USGS Decorah quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Decorah 3 NW quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decorah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Spillville between 2008 and 2020, burning about 353 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/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2012	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2020	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spillville: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ft Atkinson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horseshoe Bend Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spillville in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 flood, 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$3,000	Lots of trees were damaged in Spillville.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$3,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Spillville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$500	A couple of trees were knocked down.
August 2025	Flood	Spillville	-	Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Turkey River at Spillville to rise into flood stage during the morning on August 18th. The site crested at 11.23 ft in moderate flood stage during the early afternoon on August 18th before falling below flood stage during the early morning hours on August 20th.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	-	Eight-inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
August 2021	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 15.1 feet on the 28th.
June 2020	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from the heavy rains associated with Tropical Depression Cristobal pushed the Turkey River out of its banks twice in Spillville. The first crest was almost two and half feet above the flood stage at 11.4 feet on the 10th. The second crest was around a quarter of a foot above the flood stage at 9.23 feet, also on the 10th.
March 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 12.1 feet on March 15th.
May 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.13 feet.
June 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 10.82 feet.
September 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested a half foot above the flood stage at 9.5 feet on September 4th. The river briefly fell below flood stage before going out of its banks again. The second crest was over four and a half feet above the flood stage at 13.67 feet on September 6th.
May 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over five feet above the flood stage at 14.42 feet on the 4th. Several fire departments and law enforcement agencies help residents sandbag against the flooding.
September 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.66 feet on September 21st.
October 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.8 feet on October 10th.
May 2017	Hail	Spillville	-	Quarter to walnut sized hail fell in Spillville.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Turkey River caused a short period of flooding in Spillville. The river crested just over the flood stage at 9.14 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested almost five above the flood stage at 13.73 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested five feet above the flood stage at 13.99 feet. This was the second time in two days that flooding occurred at this site. It had crested at 9.14 feet the day before.
August 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over eleven feet above the flood stage at 20.25 feet. This established a new crest of record.
July 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.21 feet.
May 2002	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Conover	2.9 miles	12
Fort Atkinson	4.4 miles	12
Calmar	4.8 miles	12
Ridgeway	6.7 miles	12
Twin Springs	7.4 miles	12
Festina	7.4 miles	11
Jackson Junction	7.6 miles	7
Navan	9.5 miles	7

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 Spillville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903233	The 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 461848. 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.

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.