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Cartersville, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 50469. The Survey maps it on the Dougherty quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Cartersville within Cerro Gordo 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.

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cartersville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 4 hail. 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
May 2008HailCartersville$10,000no account filed
May 2008HailCartersville$5,000Report came from the intersection of Vine and 150th.
September 2016HailCartersville-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
April 2014HailCartersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cerro Gordo 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
Owen3.0 miles8
Dougherty5.4 miles9
Rockwell5.8 miles9
Hanford6.3 miles8
Hurley7.9 miles8
Cameron8.3 miles8
Portland9.5 miles8
Mason City Junction10.2 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 CartersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19600672The 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 455193. 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.

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.