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Buchanan, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52772. It stands on Nicholson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tipton West quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Buchanan within Cedar County

On record in Buchanan

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

8 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Buchanan between 2006 and 2018, burning about 164 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6

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
30 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1050 210TH ST., TIPTON, IA
10 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1051 GARFIELD AVE, TIPTON, IA
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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 Buchanan: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bealer QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Robinson QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hodgden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jedlicke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nebergall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buchanan in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBuchanan-A Cedar County Official estimated thunderstorm wind gusts up to 60 MPH generally 6 miles west of the Tipton area.
August 2011HailBuchanan-Pea to penny-sized hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 45 to 50 mph.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBuchanan-Trained spotter reported a shed blown down 6 W Tipton.
March 2024HailBuchanan-no account filed
April 2020HailBuchanan-no account filed
May 2002HailBuchanan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Cedar Valley2.7 miles12
Cedar Bluff3.6 miles12
Plato3.8 miles12
Tipton6.3 miles12
Springdale6.5 miles12
Rochester7.8 miles12
Wald7.9 miles12
West Branch8.3 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BuchananAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16959486The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454910. 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.

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.