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Cambria, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50060. The Survey maps it on the Humeston quadrangle.

Cambria within Wayne County

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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Cambria between 2006 and 2020, burning about 507 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9

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
21 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2013Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesS OF 60TH AND VALE IN WAYNE CO, IA
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesVALE & 60TH IN WAYNE CO., IA
24 April 2013Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambria in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 4 flash flood, 2 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 2007Flash FloodCambria$500,000Two people were rescued from vehicles at two locations southeast of Corydon. Seven to ten inch rainfall amounts were received. Travel was not advised on county roads.
July 2008Flash FloodCambria$25,000Flash flooding reported in Cambria. Ditches filled with water with the water running over the roads.
July 2008Flash FloodCambria$15,000Part of a gravel road was washed out by flash flooding.
July 2015Flash FloodCambria$10,000Law Enforcement reported a partially washed out gravel road on 100th just north of Timber Road north of J22.
July 2009FloodCambria$10,000Quail Run Road between 80th and 90th street was under water.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCambria$10,000A 20 inch diameter Ash tree was split in half, along with several other large tree limbs down in the town of Cambria. In addition, one 18 inch diameter tree limb was downed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCambria$5,000Several 8 inch diameter trees were down in the town of Cambria.
July 2008HailCambria$3,000no account filed
July 2008HailCambria$2,000no account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Cambria-A brief touchdown in open country was observed with no damage.
July 2008Heavy RainCambria-Rainfall of 2.8 inches in 25 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Peoria4.0 miles12
Ovia4.6 miles12
Millerton5.2 miles12
Humeston5.2 miles12
Saxon6.5 miles12
Corydon7.1 miles12
New York7.6 miles12
Allerton9.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455097. 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.