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Waterville, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Paint Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52170. The Survey maps it on the Waterville quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Waterville within Allamakee County

On record in Waterville

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Waterville fell from 144 to 109 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
2010144
2020109-35 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Waterville between 2009 and 2016, burning about 122 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
26 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2016Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWAUKON AREA FIRE PROT. DIST.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Waterville: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brazell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindWaterville$1,500no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWaterville-The public reported a large tree snapped at the base.
December 2015Heavy RainWaterville-A spotter reported 3.71 inches of rain. Dorchester ended up with 3.27 inches.
June 2009HailWaterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allamakee 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
Egan3.6 miles14
Maud4.1 miles14
Dalby4.1 miles14
Elon4.1 miles14
Rossville4.3 miles13
Eldergrove4.7 miles19
Thompson Corner5.4 miles18
Sixteen5.7 miles14

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 WatervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233365The 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 462734. 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.