BlockAvery, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mantua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52531. The Survey maps it on the Avery quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Avery quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Avery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drill Hole | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 5 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Avery | 2 hurt, $380,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Avery | $200,000 | Public reported about 10 inches of rain along highway 137 with flash flooding a few miles southwest of Eddyville. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avery | $75,000 | A Morton building was severely damaged. Some shingles were blown off of a house and a small grain bin was destroyed. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Avery | $50,000 | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avery | $25,000 | Emergency Manager reported power poles and lines downed. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Avery | $25,000 | Water from creek covering several miles of old Highway 34. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Avery | $25,000 | Old Highway 34 was closed to to flash flooding between Albia and Road T61. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Avery | $25,000 | Old Highway 34 closed between Albia and Road T61. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Avery | $25,000 | Water from nearby creek was covering old Highway 34. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Avery | $25,000 | Roads were closed due to water running over old Highway 34 east of Albia. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Avery | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Avery | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avery | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avery | $20,000 | An old schoolhouse was destroyed. Building was in poor shape before the storm hit. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Avery | $10,000 | Water was reported over 187th Street, or Old Highway 34. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Avery | $5,000 | Tornado started in far northeast Monroe county and moved southeast staying in rural areas but doing EF1 damage to a power line before exiting the county. This tornado moved into Wapello county. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Avery | $3,000 | Very heavy rain was occurring on T61 on the Monroe/Wapello County line. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avery | $2,000 | Estimated wind gust, heavy rain as well. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Avery | - | A coop observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.02 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Avery | - | Coop observer recorded 2.70 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Avery | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2016 | Hail | Avery | - | Trained spotter reported penny sized hail with rotation being reported within the storm northeast of Blakesburg. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Avery | - | Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 3.90 inches. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Avery | - | A few stones slightly larger. Hail piled up in drifts. Some wind with half inch diameter hail with tree limbs down. Hail lasted 10 minutes. |
| October 2013 | Heavy Rain | Avery | - | Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.15 inches. |
| April 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Avery | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud down to the tree line about 3 miles west-southwest of Eddyville. The storm was moving north-northeast very rapidly. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Avery | - | Brief touchdown in open area. Tornado moved into from Monroe County into Wapello County. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Avery | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Avery | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockman | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Frederic | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pleasant Corner | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Maxon | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Albia | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bridgeport | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Hocking | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hagerty | 7.8 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 Avery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4828351 | 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 454289. 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.
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.