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Cedar Valley, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gower Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52358. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle.

Cedar Valley within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Valley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 269 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14

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
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Valley: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Bealer QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hodgden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mc Guire QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nebergall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar 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
Buchanan2.7 miles12
Plato3.4 miles12
Springdale3.9 miles12
Cedar Bluff5.2 miles12
Rochester5.9 miles12
West Branch6.5 miles12
Centerdale6.7 miles12
Tipton7.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455259. 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.