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Chickasaw, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chickasaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50645. The Survey maps it on the Ionia quadrangle.

Chickasaw within Chickasaw County

On record in Chickasaw

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Chickasaw between 2006 and 2020, burning about 618 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8

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 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2015Debris and open burning28 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chickasaw: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Biglow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Boevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boise QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bunn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chickasaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Little Cedar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chickasaw County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chickasaw in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 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
August 2025FloodChickasaw-Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Little Cedar River at Ionia to rise into flood stage during the afternoon on August 18th. The site crested at 12.06 ft in minor flood stage during the evening on August 18th before falling below flood stage during the early morning hours on August 19th.
May 2023FloodChickasaw-Significant runoff from heavy rainfall upstream resulted in rapid rises and minor flooding along the Little Cedar River near Ionia on May 16th. Minor flooding was initially realized late on May 15th, with the river cresting 0.68 feet above flood stage of 10.0 feet during the early morning of May 16th. It then fell below flood stage that afternoon.
August 2021Heavy RainChickasaw-West of Ionia, 6.95 inches of rain fell.
July 2017Heavy RainChickasaw-West of Ionia, 8.39 inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainChickasaw-Near Ionia, 6.38 inches of rain fell.
August 2016Heavy RainChickasaw-The COOP observer west of Ionia measured 3.68 inches of rain.
August 2008HailChickasaw-no account filed
June 2000HailChickasaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chickasaw 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
Ionia2.1 miles7
Bassett2.3 miles7
Bradford4.7 miles9
Nashua6.0 miles9
North Washington7.1 miles7
Republic7.7 miles9
Deerfield9.0 miles7
Devon9.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455387. 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.