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Casey, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Thompson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50048. It stands on South Fork Middle River. The Survey maps it on the Casey quadrangle.

Casey within Guthrie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Casey between 2007 and 2020, burning about 155 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
8 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3180 OLEANDER TRAIL, IA
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2020Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie 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 Casey: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jefferson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casey in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 2014HailCasey$500,000Massive hail and wind storm crossed across southern portions of Guthrie county. Hail as large as baseballs and winds of up to 70 mph produced widespread damage to houses, buildings and crops.
May 2007Flash FloodCasey$500,000no account filed
June 2013FloodCasey$200,000Middle River out of its banks and flooding Maple Ave with 2 to 3 feet of water.
June 2014HailCasey$100,000Ping pong ball size hail and severe winds combined to shred siding and crops and break windows across the area.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCasey$100,000no account filed
July 1999HailCasey$30,000no account filed
June 2008FloodCasey$25,000Water was over Highway 25.
October 2007Flash FloodCasey$25,000Water was reported over highway 925 and was still rising at the time of th is report.
October 2007Flash FloodCasey$25,000Eight inches of water was flowing over White Pole Road west of Casey. County road crew were heading to the scene to close the road at the time of this report.
October 2007Flash FloodCasey$25,000Water was reported over White Pole Road 1 mile west of Casey.
April 2007Flash FloodCasey$25,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCasey$10,000Northern half of roof on a house blown into the trees. Time estimated from radar.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCasey$10,000Report from schoolnet site SADI4.
June 2009HailCasey$10,000no account filed
May 2006HailCasey$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCasey$10,000no account filed
July 1999HailCasey$10,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCasey$5,000A trained spotter reported a large tree snapped off about a foot in diameter or more.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCasey$5,000Emergency manager reported 10 to 12 inch diameter tree branches down.
August 1993HailCasey$5,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCasey$2,000no account filed
April 1995HailCasey$1,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCasey-Trained spotter reported tree damage.
May 2018Funnel CloudCasey-Trained spotter just north of Menlo noted a funnel cloud to the WNW. Location was approximate at the time.
August 2016Heavy RainCasey-KCCI relayed a viewer measured heavy rainfall amount of 4.66 inches.
June 2015Funnel CloudCasey-Public reported possible funnel cloud just east of Casey. Reporter was a former fire department spotter.
June 2022HailCasey-no account filed
April 2004HailCasey-no account filed
May 2004HailCasey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Menlo6.2 miles11
Adair6.6 miles9
Glendon8.8 miles11
Monteith10.0 miles11
Stuart10.6 miles11
Dale11.3 miles11
Guthrie Center11.9 miles9
Morrisburgh (historical)12.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455198. 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.