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Welcome to the Lovilia Home page. The Lovilia Home page provides as much information as possible on Lovilia. Knowing Lovilia’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lovilia’s Home page, you will also find Lovilia’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lovilia has a population of 625. 53.9% of Lovilia’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.1 are female. 56.8% of Lovilia is married and 86.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $84,909, and the average rent is $733. Household median income in Lovilia is $54,479, and the individual median income is $31,667. Lovilia’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.8%), Multiple(6.2%).


Lovilla was laid out in 1853.Coal was known north and south of Lovilia in the early 1900s, and there were scattered "country mines" in the area.On March 30, 1953, there was a dust explosion at the O'Brien Mine, a coal mine near Lovilia. Two men, including the mine foreman, were in the mine to fire the black-powder shots at the end of the work shift.


Both were killed in the blast. Volunteers from Lovilia went into the mine and brought out the bodies, and then the owner of the O'Brien mine, along with three officials of a nearby mine and an employee went underground to investigate. Of the five, only two survived; the others were overcome by bad air.


The ensuing investigation determined that the dust explosion was caused by a blow-out in two of the blasted holes. A blow-out occurs when the force of the explosion blows the stemming out of a hole instead of breaking up the surrounding material. In the case of the O'Brien mine, the stemming used was a mix of coal dust and clay.In 1972, the Lovilia Coal Company was operating one of the last two underground coal mines in Iowa.


The mine employed 21 workers and produced 245,000 tons of coal that year. This was a room and pillar mine.In 1985, the Star Coal Company of Lovilia was the largest employer in Monroe County, Iowa, with 150 employees. Coal production was 500,000 tons per year, about 80 percent of Iowa's total coal production.


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