Lawton, IA Noise Levels
Lawton, IA: what the federal noise map shows
At Lawton, IA, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Lawton, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Lawton ranks
Lawton is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 949, 10,492th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Lawton's reading
For a single house or lot in Lawton rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Lawton's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Lawton.