Beaverdale, Iowa

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.

• 1934 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:48000
• 1940 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS West Burlington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Beaverdale between 2013 and 2018, burning about 184 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Burlington
• Burlington
• Dodgeville
• Kline
• Latty
• Middletown

Every fire recorded in Des Moines County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Beaverdale: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Des Moines County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaverdale in 21 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Des Moines County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454464. 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.