How many railroad crossings are in Palo Alto County, Iowa?
The FRA inventory of lists 74 public railroad crossings in Palo Alto County, Iowa.
- Public crossings
- 74
- Public crossings with identified warning devices
- 74
- Public crossings reported with gates
- 9%
- Most trains a day reported
- 4
- Reported incidents at public crossings since 2016
- 2
- Gate share compared with the state
- 21 percentage points lower
Where are these public crossings?
Browse the listThe map shows the available locations on this page. Area shading may include crossings outside this group.
Gates are reported at 9% of these crossings.
- Gates79%
- Flashing lights without reported gates912%
- Signs without reported gates or lights5878%
- Other or not reported00%
Each crossing appears once, grouped by its reported warning devices. Missing fields don't mean the warning devices are absent.
Incident counts cover January 2016 through 31 July 2026. They describe reported events, not a rating of crossings.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
How many trains pass each crossing?
Public crossings are ordered by reported trains a day, from most to lowest.
- 10th StreetEmmetsburg871 vehicles a day1998 road count
- 11th StreetEmmetsburg871 vehicles a day1998 road count
- 12th StreetEmmetsburg651 vehicles a day1998 road count
- 380th StreetEmmetsburg670 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 390th StreetEmmetsburg80 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 490th AvenueEmmetsburg35 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 400th StreetEmmetsburg25 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 510th AvenueEmmetsburg60 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 520th AvenueRodman15 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 420th StreetRodman15 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 530th AvenueRodman15 vehicles a day2007 road count
- Rodman AvenueRodman130 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 430th StreetRodman381 vehicles a day2024 road count
- 440th StreetRodman60 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 550th AvenueRodman15 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 450th StreetRodman25 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 560th AvenueWest Bend60 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 460th StreetWest Bend120 vehicles a day2007 road count
- Broadway AvenueWest Bend2,550 vehicles a day2007 road count
- 270th StreetGraettinger50 vehicles a day2007 road count
- Hoffman AvenueGraettinger486 vehicles a day1998 road count
- Robins AvenueGraettinger460 vehicles a day2007 road count
- Patterson AvenueGraettinger289 vehicles a day1998 road count
- 435th AvenueGraettinger100 vehicles a day2007 road count
Trains blocking a crossing in Palo Alto County? How to report it.Blocked crossing rules in Iowa
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Sources and dates