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Ayresville, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Inland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52772. The Survey maps it on the Lime City quadrangle.

Ayresville within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ayresville between 2007 and 2015, burning about 43 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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
5 April 2013Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2000 TAYLOR AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ayresville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Lime City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Townsend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar 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
Lime City4.2 miles14
Bennett4.4 miles15
Sunbury4.5 miles15
Rochester7.7 miles12
Durant8.0 miles15
Tipton8.4 miles12
Wald12.3 miles12
Cedar Valley12.7 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122547781The 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 464233. 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.