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Arbor Hill, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50250. The Survey maps it on the Arbor Hill quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Arbor Hill within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Arbor Hill between 2006 and 2018, burning about 156 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3136 180TH ST., HARRISON TWP, IOWA
4 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources150TH & VICTOR AVE, LINCOLN TWP, IOWA
7 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arbor Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Howe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arbor Hill in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodArbor Hill$15,000At least 6 to 10 inches of water flowing through portions of the Jasper County fairgrounds. Several parked cars and campers flooded.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$15,000Winds of 63 MPH were reported in Stuart.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$10,000Trained spotter reported 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down and doors of an outbuilding blown in.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$10,000A wind gust of 63 MPH was recorded by a trained spotter.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$5,000Trained spotter estimated 65 mph winds along with nickel sized hail. There were branches of at least 3 inch diameter down. Visibility was near zero during the heavy rain.
October 2018Tornado (EF1)Arbor Hill$5,000Tornado developed just east of the Stuart Road in open cropland. The tornado moved on a slightly unusual northwest track eventually crossing the Stuart Road about one half mile south of 150th Street. The tornado produced EF1 damage to outbuildings and trees at a farmstead on the southwest intersection of 150th & Stuart Road. The tornado then moved back into cropland with only some minor tree and crop damage noted until it dissipated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$3,000Also measured a 73 MPH wind gust at 0626 CST.
May 2010HailArbor Hill$3,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindArbor Hill$2,000A two and one half foot diameter tree was downed.
August 2018HailArbor Hill-Amateur radio operator reported around 4 minutes of time to penny sized hail.
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Arbor Hill-Tornado developed just south of the hamlet of Arbor Hill and produced minor tree damage along the Stuart Road. The tornado moved northeast and remained over cropland with little damage noted. Portions of the path were observed using high resolution satellite imagery.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Arbor Hill-Tornado formed as broader wind field narrowed into a circulation in northern Adair county. Tornado produced only crop damage along its relatively short path. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
April 2012Heavy RainArbor Hill-Rainfall total of 1.4 inches from the first storm.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Nanito3.8 miles10
Howe4.0 miles10
Stanzel4.6 miles10
Rosserdale5.7 miles10
Hebron7.9 miles10
Lemont (historical)8.4 miles10
Greenfield8.7 miles10
Prussia10.0 miles9

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 Arbor HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4784760The 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 464445. 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.