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Ascot, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Crescent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51526. The Survey maps it on the Loveland quadrangle.

Ascot within Pottawattamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

26 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ascot between 2001 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 April 2001Recreation and ceremony45 acresBoyer Chute National Wildlife RefugeSIGNAL
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ascot: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Crescent QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pottawattamie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ascot in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2019FloodAscot-Interstate 680 between the Missouri River and Interstate 29 closed again in both directions due to flooding.
May 2019FloodAscot-Interstate 29 closed again from the I680/I29 split northward to the I680/80 split.
August 2012HailAscot-The hail was reported near the Mormon Bridge on which I680 crosses the Missouri River into Iowa.

Every storm recorded in Pottawattamie 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
Honey Creek2.1 miles12
Grable3.9 miles13
Crescent4.0 miles14
Clara4.1 miles15
Loveland5.8 miles13
Pigeon6.8 miles12
Carter Lake8.6 miles15
Weston9.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464240. 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.