In Dickinson County, Iowa, which covers Spirit Lake, we have measured 3,702 parcels on septic and 7,202 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Spirit Lake on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Spirit Lake is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 43.416659, -95.113071 and its land area at 4.52 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Dickinson County | 79 | 3,702 | 7,202 | county portal | no account needed |
Our collection for Dickinson County, Iowa is small, at 79 septic records. Treat it as a starting point for a Spirit Lake property rather than a search that settles the question. The county is genuinely mixed: 3,702 of 10,904 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Spirit Lake address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Dickinson County, Iowa, which covers Spirit Lake, we have measured 3,702 parcels on septic and 7,202 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Spirit Lake on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Spirit Lake is in Dickinson County, Iowa.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Spirit Lake’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Spirit Lake.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Dickinson County, Iowa.