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Bevington, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50033. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle.

Bevington within Madison County

On record in Bevington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bevington between 2009 and 2015, burning about 14 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2015Debris and open burning13 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevington in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodBevington$100,000The county Sheriff reported that county roads are flooding and quickly becoming impassable near creeks and streams or in low-lying areas across the county.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindBevington$50,000A garage was destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBevington$25,000Minor roof damage to a house and warehouse as the tornado dissipated.
September 2014Flash FloodBevington$10,000Water was reported over 10th Ave from Badger Creek.
May 2004HailBevington$10,000no account filed
May 2001HailBevington$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailBevington$3,000no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Bevington$2,000A Tornadic Debris Signature was observed on radar with this tornado confirming its existence along with damage provided by the Dallas County EMA. Damage was mainly to trees in Madison County. This tornado then moved into far southeast Dallas County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBevington$2,000Trained spotter reported 8 inch diameter tree down covering the road, along with nickel sized hail. They estimated winds to be around 60 mph.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBevington$2,000Six inch diameter tree branch down across the road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBevington$2,000no account filed
July 2013HailBevington$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBevington-Report via personal weather station.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBevington-A trained spotter reported a 75 mph wind gust.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBevington-A trained spotter reported a 75 mph wind gust.
March 2019FloodBevington-Trained spotter reported ponding in low lying and poor drainage areas, including water over many of the secondary roads across Madison county.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBevington-Trained spotter reported winds estimated 50 to 60 mph.
July 2016Heavy RainBevington-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 4.98 inches.
June 2015HailBevington-Trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
September 2014Heavy RainBevington-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 4.46 inches.
June 2011Heavy RainBevington-Rainfall total for the 24 hour period was 6.70 inches.
June 2010Funnel CloudBevington-Brief funnel was spotted west of Bevington on Highway 92.
June 2024Funnel CloudBevington-no account filed
June 2024Funnel CloudBevington-no account filed
June 2024Funnel CloudBevington-no account filed
June 2010HailBevington-no account filed
May 2004HailBevington-no account filed
August 1996Funnel CloudBevington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Patterson4.8 miles9
Saint Charles5.1 miles9
Hanley5.5 miles9
Tileville7.7 miles9
McBride9.1 miles9
Truro10.8 miles9
East Peru11.7 miles9
Buffalo (historical)11.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454592. 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.