Bethelhem, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wright Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52583. The Survey maps it on the Confidence quadrangle.

Bethelhem within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1935 USGS Russell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Russell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Confidence quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bethelhem between 2005 and 2009, burning about 1,202 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1,200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
New York	2.6 miles	12
Confidence	4.8 miles	11
Millerton	5.0 miles	12
Ovia	5.7 miles	12
Bridgeport	6.2 miles	11
Promise City	7.3 miles	10
Corydon	8.1 miles	12
Peoria	9.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454579. 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.