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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Aplington quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2012Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 October 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 October 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austinville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Carolus Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Humke Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Neymeyer Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Park Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Reiken Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tack Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Austinville | $500,000 | Highway 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 2019 | Flood | Austinville | $50,000 | Iowa DOT reported Iowa 57 from near Austinville to west of Parkersburg closed due to flooding. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Austinville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austinville | $5,000 | Trees blown down by high winds. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Austinville | $3,000 | Thunderstorms 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austinville | $2,000 | Many small tree branches down, corn heavily damaged by winds and pea size hail. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Austinville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Austinville | - | Emergency Manager reported several secondary roads underwater across the county including at 260th and Douglas. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Austinville | - | Iowa DOT reported Iowa 14 closed north of Parkersburg between Iowa 57 and County Road C55. |
| August 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Austinville | - | KWWL relayed a viewer report of a funnel cloud. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Austinville | - | Trained spotter reported mostly pea to nickel sized hail with a few to the size of quarters. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austinville | - | Trained spotter reported several gusts of 55 to 60 mph measured with home weather station. There was also hail, but of unknown size. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Austinville | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via social media. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Austinville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aplington | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Kesley | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Eleanor | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Parkersburg | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dumont | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Butler Center | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| New Albion | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Bristow | 13.2 miles | 10 |
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 Austinville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4823361 | 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 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.



