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Bladensburg, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52501. The Survey maps it on the Abingdon quadrangle.

Bladensburg within Wapello County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bladensburg in 2010, burning about 3 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/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
6 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1232 85TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wapello County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bladensburg in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBladensburg$1,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBladensburg-Public report of estimated 60 mph wind gust approximately 4 miles east of Agency.

Every storm recorded in Wapello 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
Yampa2.6 miles7
Agency5.1 miles10
Competine5.2 miles7
Farson5.3 miles9
Ashland6.0 miles7
Loch Burns6.2 miles9
Dahlonega7.1 miles9
Cliffland7.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454670. 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.