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Chapel Hill, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Davenport City. It lies in ZIP code area 52802. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Andalusia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chapel Hill within Scott County

On record in Chapel Hill

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill (historical) between 2008 and 2011, burning about 2 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/undetermined8
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
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
23 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR2
16 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI280 11
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCANAL
30 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTOBIAS
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources528
30 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHOLLOW
27 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOUNTY
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources79TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chapel Hill (historical): 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Linwood Lime PlantCalciumProducer
Big Island Plant #51 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders Sand and Gravel Co. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Pit No. 3 Milan PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Linwood Stone Products Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Martin Marietta-Buffalo Cement PlntStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Island City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
U. S. Army EngineersStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Nahant0.6 miles19
Rockingham (historical)1.0 miles19
Walnut Grove1.7 miles19
Black Hawk2.0 miles18
Linwood2.5 miles19
Jamestown3.2 miles19
Buffalo Heights3.8 miles19
Little Groves3.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465063. 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.