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Buckingham, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Buckingham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50612. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buckingham quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Buckingham within Tama County

On record in Buckingham

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

4 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Buckingham between 2011 and 2017, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources370 AVE 180 ST, IA
22 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tama County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buckingham: 1 past producer. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckingham in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2014Tornado (EF1)Buckingham$25,000Visually striking tornado moved through rural areas of Tama county. Debris was noted, farmstead was damaged, and numerous crops damaged. Track was well captured by satellite overflight.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBuckingham$20,000Iowa DOT reported power lines down along Highway 63 at mile marker 144. Time estimated from radar.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBuckingham$20,000no account filed
June 2011HailBuckingham$10,000no account filed
June 2011HailBuckingham$5,000no account filed
April 2017HailBuckingham$3,000Emergency manager reported their truck sustained hail damage from hail just under golf ball size just south of the Black Hawk and Tama county lines on S Ave. Time estimated from radar.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Buckingham$1,000Brief touchdown in open country.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBuckingham$1,000no account filed
July 2024HailBuckingham-Relayed through broadcast media, with time of occurrence estimated by radar.
April 2017HailBuckingham-Media reported hail up to golf ball in size. Time estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Tama 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
Buckingham (historical)4.0 miles9
Traer4.8 miles9
West Union (historical)5.0 miles9
Dinsdale5.2 miles9
Mooreville (historical)7.9 miles9
Dysart9.8 miles9
Clutier12.9 miles9
Lincoln12.9 miles9

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 BuckinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4983191The 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 454939. 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.