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Austinville, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50608. It stands on North Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aplington quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Austinville within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Austinville between 2012 and 2019, burning about 14 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Austinville: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Austinville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Carolus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Humke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Neymeyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reiken QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austinville in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
June 2013Flash FloodAustinville$500,000Highway 57 closed both east and west of Aplington due to water. Numerous County roads including black topped roads are closed in the Aplington area and to the south and west of Aplington.
March 2019FloodAustinville$50,000Iowa DOT reported Iowa 57 from near Austinville to west of Parkersburg closed due to flooding.
June 1998Tornado (F2)Austinville$10,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAustinville$5,000Trees blown down by high winds.
September 1995HailAustinville$3,000Thunderstorms formed during the night ahead of a slow moving Pacific cold front. They moved into northeast Iowa during the predawn hours. Though many were not severe, one storm did produce hail over Butler County. Three quarter-inch diameter hail fell in the Austinville area, with golf ball-size hail reported at Applington. High winds in the Applington area also downed numerous trees and power lines as well.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAustinville$2,000Many small tree branches down, corn heavily damaged by winds and pea size hail.
August 1998HailAustinville$2,000no account filed
June 2020Flash FloodAustinville-Emergency Manager reported several secondary roads underwater across the county including at 260th and Douglas.
March 2019FloodAustinville-Iowa DOT reported Iowa 14 closed north of Parkersburg between Iowa 57 and County Road C55.
August 2018Funnel CloudAustinville-KWWL relayed a viewer report of a funnel cloud.
June 2018HailAustinville-Trained spotter reported mostly pea to nickel sized hail with a few to the size of quarters.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAustinville-Trained spotter reported several gusts of 55 to 60 mph measured with home weather station. There was also hail, but of unknown size.
June 2017HailAustinville-Public reported quarter sized hail via social media.
June 2022HailAustinville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Aplington3.9 miles9
Kesley5.8 miles10
Eleanor6.0 miles9
Parkersburg9.0 miles9
Dumont11.5 miles10
Butler Center12.0 miles9
New Albion12.6 miles9
Bristow13.2 miles10

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 AustinvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4823361The 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 454287. 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.