BlockBarnes City, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pleasant Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50027. The Survey maps it on the Barnes City 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 Barnes City quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Grinnell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Barnes City between 2011 and 2017, burning about 26 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 120TH & RUTLEDGE, IA |
| 23 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnes City in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Flood | Barnes City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Barnes City | $10,000 | Trained spotter reported golf ball hail. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes City | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported several tree limbs upwards of 8 inches in diameter downed. Additionally, a hollowed out 15 to 20 inch diameter tree downed. Over 1 inch of rainfall reported in half an hour as well. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Barnes City | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Barnes City | $3,000 | Quarter size hail nearly covering the ground. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Barnes City | - | Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud, via social media. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricola (historical) | 0.7 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Valley | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Union Mills | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Neska | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Indianapolis | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| New Sharon | 10.1 miles | 7 | |
| Lacey | 11.8 miles | 7 | |
| Rose Hill | 12.9 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454362. 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.
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.