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Cedar City, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cedar Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 50613. It stands on Snag Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Falls quadrangle.

Cedar City within Black Hawk County

On record in Cedar City

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 within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cedar City between 2002 and 2011, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 June 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources310 ST. SPRUCE AVE, IA
23 March 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Cedar City: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Burton Avenue QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stead Bros. and Guenther Clay PitClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Waterloo and Cedar Falls Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
Assink Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar City in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindCedar City$25,000Trees were reported down on houses and cars with power lines down. Report received from KWWL TV.
May 2008HailCedar City$25,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCedar City$10,000Semi blown off road on highway 218 at the lone tree exit.
April 2010HailCedar City$10,000no account filed
August 2013Funnel CloudCedar City-Several reports of funnel cloud 2/3 of the way to the ground and very slowly rotating. The funnel then dissipated.

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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
Cedar Falls0.9 miles12
Lamplighter Villa1.1 miles12
North Cedar1.3 miles12
Norris Siding2.2 miles12
Castle Hill3.0 miles12
Benson5.4 miles9
Boies (historical)6.1 miles12
Waterloo6.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455226. 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.