Belknap, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Soap Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52537. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield North quadrangle.

Belknap within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ottumwa South quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Bloomfield North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Belknap between 2010 and 2020, burning about 884 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	12
Smoking	1
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
11 September 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2020	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 April 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2020	Debris and open burning	500 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2017	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Belknap: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
	Welch Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belknap in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Belknap	$120,000	A brief tornado occurred south of Floris from a developing weak storm. The tornado moved across a farmstead on the west side of Pecan Avenue producing high end EF0 damage to two metal buildings. The tornado lifted shortly afterwards.
April 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Belknap	$25,000	Public reports indicated a tornado with an intermittent track. Trees were downed and a roof was blown off. A garage was possibly down 1 mile west of the Floris turnoff of Highway 63, to the turnoff of Highway 63.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Belknap	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Belknap	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Belknap	$5,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Belknap	$2,000	Small trees and tree limbs downed.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belknap	$1,000	Winds estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Belknap	$1,000	no account filed
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Belknap	-	Public weather station measured 2.14 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar. Rain ongoing at observation time.

Every storm recorded in Davis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant View (historical)	2.5 miles	10
Dunnville (historical)	2.5 miles	10
Drakesville	3.3 miles	10
Bloomfield	4.8 miles	10
Carbon	5.2 miles	10
Floris	5.8 miles	10
Steuben	7.0 miles	8
Shunem	7.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454489. 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.