Black Hawk, Iowa

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Davenport City. It lies in ZIP code area 52804. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Davenport West quadrangle.

Black Hawk within Scott County

On record in Black Hawk

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Davenport Crematoriumlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
Thomas C. Wilkinson Houselisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1891 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1901 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1910 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Davenport West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Davenport West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Black Hawk between 2008 and 2011, burning about 5 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	I280 11
6 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CANAL
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1776 E 49, IA
28 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1833 E 49, IA
24 March 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BIG ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Black Hawk: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Linwood Lime Plant	Calcium	Producer
Big Island Plant #51 Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Builders Sand and Gravel Co. Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
General Pit No. 3 Milan Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Linwood Stone Products Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rock Island City Eng.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U. S. Army Engineers	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Chapel Hill (historical)	2.0 miles	19
Nahant	2.3 miles	19
Rockingham (historical)	2.7 miles	19
Little Groves	2.9 miles	18
Davenport	3.2 miles	20
Green Acres	3.7 miles	20
Walnut Grove	3.7 miles	19
Jamestown	4.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464237. 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.