Stone City, Iowa
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52205. The Survey maps it on the Anamosa quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
On record in Stone City
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 1 record
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Churchlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresStone City fell from 192 to 186 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 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 186 | -6 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Farley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stone City between 2007 and 2014, burning about 78 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 | 12 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2014 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Stone City: 12 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anamosa Mines | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Dearborn Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Penitentiary Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Weber Mine and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Weber Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Equitable Life Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pearson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Weber Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Champion #2 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone City in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 7 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Flood | Stone City | $10,000,000 | Several homes flooded in Olin. The extent of the flooding was blamed at least in part on a levee break along a creek north of town that was intended to divert the creek waters into the Wapsipinicon River. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Stone City | $5,000,000 | The record crest on the Wapsipinicon River at Anamosa occurred on June 13, 2008 at 26.18 feet. Flood stage is 14 feet. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Stone City | $500,000 | Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Wapsipinicon River at Anamosa going above the moderate flood stage level of 15.5 feet on June 21 around 100 am. It crested around 15.6 feet around 700 am June 21. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 715 am June 21. |
| August 2009 | Flood | Stone City | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flood | Stone City | $250,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Flood | Stone City | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall of 4 to over 10 inches over significant areas from 21 to 23 September in extreme North Central and Northeast Iowa moved downstream causing the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage levels. ||Anamosa rose above its major flood stage level of 21.5 feet on September 27th, 2016 at approximately 11 PM CST. It crested around 22.8 feet at approximately 7 PM CST on September 27th, 2016. It fell below major flood stage on September 28th around 4 pm CST.||Flooding continued into October. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone City | $25,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew down or uprooted some large trees and ripped the roof off a metal barn about 8 miles west southwest of Monticello, IA around 730 pm July 24. This report was relayed by a spotter network. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone City | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Stone City | - | This tornado developed just east of the Wapsipinicon River in Linn County and crossed into Jones County ending near U.S. Highway 151. Snapped large trees were found at a few locations, along with roof damage to a mobile home. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Stone City | - | The time was estimated from radar data. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone City | - | A trained spotter reported trees down and large tree branches down. The time of the event was estimated using radar. This report was received via social media. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Stone City | - | Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches in a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin caused the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage at Anamosa. The extended duration between the forecast and actual lower end major river flooding allowed preparations to preclude major damage downstream. Anamosa rose above major flood stage of 21.5 feet at 7 PM CST on 4 September. Then crested around 23.28 feet at 1045 PM CST on September 8th and fell below 21.5 feet at approximately 545 AM CST on 9 September. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone City | - | Two large branches were down at a residence along with the soffit off of the house. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stone City | - | Nickel-sized hail fell just west of Anamosa, IA at 9:58 pm June 12. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Stone City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Jackson | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Anamosa | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cass (historical) | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Martelle | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Langworthy | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Amber | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Newport | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Stone City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3800818 | 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 462005. 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.








