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University Heights, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Iowa City City. It lies in ZIP code area 52246. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iowa City West quadrangle. 1,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

University Heights within Johnson County

On record in University Heights

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

University Heights grew from 1,051 to 1,228 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
20101,051
20201,228+177 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of University Heights between 2006 and 2017, burning about 65 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1

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
7 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2015Smoking5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 University Heights: 4 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, Flagstone. 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
Hutchinson QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Sanders QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, FlagstonePast Producer
Showers SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Conklin Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Klein QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vogel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Iowa City1.5 miles19
Coralville1.9 miles19
Vernon3.2 miles19
Oakdale4.3 miles19
Western Hills Mobine Estates5.2 miles17
Graham (historical)5.5 miles14
Breckenridge Estates6.1 miles11
Tiffin6.6 miles17

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 University HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2239924The 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 462482. 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.