BlockAmish, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52247. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amish quadrangle.
On record in Amish
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Washington Township Center High Schoollisted 1979
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Fairfax quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Amish quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Amish between 2009 and 2015, burning about 57 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Amish: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wellman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Whitstine Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amish in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amish | - | A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 MPH wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amish | - | A trained spotter reported a large tree branches downed by the winds, with some trees snapped in half, one tree fell on their neighbors house, damaging the deck. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Amish | - | A tornado developed southwest of Wellman in Washington County, and tracked quickly to the northeast along a patch through the Amish and Frytown areas in Johnson County. The tornado caused damage to homes, outbuildings, and trees. No injuries were reported. Thanks to Washington and Johnson County emergency management for assistance in completing the survey. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Amish | - | A review of Sentinel satellite data confirms that a separate tornado developed near Amish, and moved northeast around 6 miles to near Frytown, before dissipating. The tornado caused damage to farm outbuildings along its path. The tornado was rated EF0 with maximum winds around 85 mph. After the tornado dissipated, the associated supercell thunderstorm cycled again and produced an EF2 tornado that tracked from Coralville to Solon. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Amish | - | Another large, violent tornado developed in eastern Keokuk County as the initial tornado was weakening southwest of Keota. The tornado tracked to the northeast, on the western fringe of Keota, and crossed into Washington County near the intersection of Keokuk-Washington Road and 180th St. The tornado then continued through northwest Washington county, extreme southeast Iowa County, and into far southwest Johnson County. The tornado severely damaged several homes near Keota, wiping one house completely off its foundation, resulting in EF-4 level damage. A car was lofted in the air and tossed about 1000 feet into a nearby field and trees were completely debarked with only stubs of the largest branches remaining. As the tornado tracked west of Wellman, Iowa it knocked over a 325 ft cell phone tower. The tornado moved into extreme southeast Iowa County near the intersection of Iowa-Washington Road and Ginkgo Ave., and then into far southwest Johnson County, about a third of a mile north of the intersection of Iowa-Washington Road and Johnson Iowa Road SW. The tornado dissipated just northwest of Hillcrest Academy in Johnson County. The tornado was rated EF-4 in Keokuk County, EF-3 in Washington County, and EF-1 in Iowa and Johnson Counties. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Amish | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell for 10 minutes. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Amish | - | An EF-0 tornado touched down at a farmstead and moved northeast through a farm field into a wooded area, where tree damage was observed. The tornado was on the ground for less than one minute and the path length was around a quarter mile. Times estimated by radar. Winds were estimated up to 75 MPH. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amish | - | A trained spotter reported a 60 foot pine tree was blown down. They estimated the winds to be around 60 mph. Additionally, over six inches of rain fell in the area since midnight. |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Amish | - | Reported by public. |
| October 2024 | Hail | Amish | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Amish | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Amish | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Amish | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4746800 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454170. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.