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Buck Grove, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51528. The Survey maps it on the Dow City quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.

Buck Grove within Crawford County

On record in Buck Grove

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

Population over time

2 figures

Buck Grove fell from 43 to 34 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043
202034-9 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Buck Grove between 2007 and 2019, burning about 79 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Buck Grove: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them 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
Arion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ballantine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Denison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buck Grove in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
August 2001Tornado (F1)Buck Grove$200,000Several outbuilding destroyed and many crops flattened.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove$20,000no account filed
October 1994HailBuck Grove$3,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove-Law enforcement reported tree damage occurred all across town.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove-Law enforcement reported tree damage occurred all across town.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove-Iowa DOT RWIS site recorded a 63 mph wind gust about 6 miles south of Denison.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove-Trained spotter reported wind gusts up to 70 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBuck Grove-Measured by an RWIS site.
July 2006HailBuck Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Arion4.2 miles8
Dow City5.2 miles8
Kimze5.3 miles8
Sunset Village5.8 miles8
Bell (historical)5.9 miles8
Denison7.2 miles8
Astor7.6 miles8
Haley8.5 miles8

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 Buck GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1947678The 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 454929. 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.