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Irondale, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63648. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Irondale quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Irondale within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Irondale fell from 445 to 368 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
2010445
2020368-77 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Irondale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning14
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137758-09401-06162016-1409
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176587-11043-04092018-1440
9 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178502-09401-04052019-1131
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135360-11043-04032016-1240

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Irondale: 23 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Copper. 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
Faquaher DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer
Jordans Copper DiggingsCopperPast Producer
Leadwood MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelProducer1898, 1903
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Iron & ZincZinc, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-Fe and ZnIronPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Evans MineZincPast Producer
Faguaher DiggingsLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Smithsonite

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irondale in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindIrondale$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree branch onto the roof of a house. The roof sustained minor damage.
March 2026Flash FloodIrondale-Heavy rain caused Germania Road (listed as St. Francois Road on Google Maps) to flood along the Washington - St. Francois county line.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindIrondale-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2004HailIrondale-The public reported 3/4 inch hail near Irondale.
May 1997HailIrondale-Skywarn spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2026HailIrondale-no account filed
April 2026HailIrondale-no account filed
May 2024HailIrondale-no account filed
March 2008HailIrondale-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIrondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hopewell4.1 miles20
Summit5.7 miles20
Holiday Shores6.4 miles24
Caledonia6.9 miles21
Springtown7.7 miles21
Mineral Point8.2 miles20
French Town8.5 miles20
Bates Creek Camp9.2 miles21

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 IrondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961813The 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 736310. 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.