Agricola, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pleasant Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50027. The Survey maps it on the Gibson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Agricola within Mahaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Gibson quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Agricola (historical) between 2011 and 2017, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	120TH & RUTLEDGE, IA
23 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahaska County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barnes City	0.7 miles	8
Spring Valley	5.8 miles	7
Union Mills	6.0 miles	7
Neska	6.6 miles	7
Indianapolis	7.4 miles	7
New Sharon	9.5 miles	7
Lacey	11.1 miles	7
Rose Hill	12.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465504. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.