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Bingham, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51601. The Survey maps it on the Bingham quadrangle.

Bingham within Page County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bingham between 2006 and 2020, burning about 57 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources57006 241ST ST., TECHNICAL SERVICES. SEC 18 GRANT
21 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources24656 SANDHILL TRAIL, SECTION #17, GRANT TOWNSHIP,
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesA. AVE AND OLD HIGHWAY 6 F-29 COUNTY ROAD, IA
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Page County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Bingham-A second weaker tornado from the same Supercell storm formed 4 miles east of Shenandoah and moved east southeast for a little over 2 miles. Most of the damage was limited to flattened corn and tree trunks being snapped by the tornado.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBingham-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused extensive damage to a roof of a barn with other debris noted in the area. The wind damage was from the same storm that dropped hail at least 1 inch in diameter in the area.
June 2011HailBingham-Hail up to quarter-size was accompanied by winds estimated at 40 to 50 mph. The hail and wind shredded some corn fields in the area.

Every storm recorded in Page 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
Norwich1.8 miles10
Shenandoah4.9 miles8
Tarkio City (historical)4.9 miles12
Coin6.3 miles12
Essex6.9 miles8
Yorktown7.0 miles12
Page Center8.6 miles12
Northboro8.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454639. 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.