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Centerdale, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Springdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52358. The Survey maps it on the West Branch quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Centerdale 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

46 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Centerdale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 606 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerdale in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
July 2013HailCenterdale-Quarter sized hail fell about 3 miles north northeast of West Liberty, IA around 720pm CDT July 19.

Every storm 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
Downey2.8 miles11
West Branch2.9 miles12
Springdale3.2 miles12
Plato6.6 miles12
Cedar Valley6.7 miles12
Rochester8.2 miles12
Buchanan9.1 miles12
Cedar Bluff9.9 miles12

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 CenterdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890171The 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 464494. 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.