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Buck Creek, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50674. The Survey maps it on the Sumner SW quadrangle.

Buck Creek within Bremer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

14 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Buck Creek between 2010 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
23 May 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources3281 200TH STREET SUMNER, IA 50674, IOWA
23 April 2018Natural2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1781 VIKING AVE SUMNER, IA 50674, IA
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources230TH AND TIMBER AVE, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bremer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buck Creek: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Nolte PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oran PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Bremer County

Storms near this place

10 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buck Creek in 10 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 2014Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek$200,000Narrow but strong area of wind damage in east central Bremer County. Worst damage was on a farmstead (point used for this event). A barn was flattened, multiple trees were snapped, and several empty grain bins were thrown into the trees.
June 2013HailBuck Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailBuck Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailBuck Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailBuck Creek$10,000no account filed
June 2013HailBuck Creek$2,000no account filed
July 2021Tornado (EF0)Buck Creek$1,000Emergency manager reported a tornado east of the Readlyn area. Video and high resolution satellite imagery was used to determine the path of the tornado in eastern Bremer county. The tornado remained mostly in rural agricultural land, but did produce some minor tree damage at a farmstead.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-Personal weather station gust to 58.
July 2017Flash FloodBuck Creek-Law enforcement reported road washed out at 180th st and Y ave.
July 2017Flash FloodBuck Creek-Law enforcement reported secondary roads just east-northeast of Readlyn covered with water and Highway 3 close to being inundated.

Every storm recorded in Bremer 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
Miner3.7 miles9
Wapsie4.3 miles9
Spring Fountain5.5 miles9
Readlyn5.9 miles9
Sumner6.7 miles9
Knittel6.9 miles10
Tripoli7.1 miles9
Old Tripoli8.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464475. 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.