Burr Oak, Iowa

Burr Oak is a small unincorporated community in Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States, very close to the Minnesota state line. Burr Oak is a census-designated place and the population was 166 in the 2010 census.

History
Burr Oak was platted in 1855.

The village is one of the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie books. Grace Ingalls, the youngest of the Ingalls children, was born there in 1877. There is a Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in the local Masters Hotel.

Hamlin Garland, noted American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher lived on a farm in Hesper Township, near Burr Oak during the 1870s.

Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 166 people, 70 households, and 43 families residing inComplete HarpWeek Explanation:In this cartoon Thomas Nast presents a careful
parody of illustrator Robert Seymour's celebrated initial plate to Charles
Dickens' landmark novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Better known
as The Pickwick Papers, this book appeared serially in 1836-1837. The tale
begins as Mr. Samuel Pickwick, Esq., "mounted into the Windsor Chair on
which he had previously been seated, and addressed the club he himself had
founded."

Here, Greeley is in the title role, and in place of the fifteen individuals
represented in Seymour's steel-plate etching, Nast's Greeley-Pickwick is
surrounded by an ill-matched group of Liberal Republicans, Democrats, and
mavericks, each with his own agenda. The banner overhead aptly begins,
"Extremes Meet Here." This satire, "The Cincinnati Convention, In
A Pickwickian Sense", bore the subtitle: "Horace Pickwick. 'Men and
Brethren! A new leaf must be turned over, or