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Clarkdale, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52544. The Survey maps it on the Mystic quadrangle.

Clarkdale within Appanoose County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clarkdale between 2015 and 2017, burning about 157 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burning120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 January 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Clarkdale: 12 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Zinc. 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
Centerville Gypsum Co. MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Carter-Waters Corp. PlantClayProducer
Centerville Clay Products Co.ClayPast Producer
Centerville QuarryClayProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Centerville No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Centerville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clarkdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkdale in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2008Flash FloodClarkdale$50,000Water from a creek flooded 493rd street. Also 176th ave four miles northeast of Centerville was flooded.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindClarkdale$25,000Wind gust reported by a Ham Radio operator.
June 2015Flash FloodClarkdale-Law Enforcement reported flooding within the city of Centerville and along Highway 2 to the east of town.

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Rathbun1.4 miles9
Forbush1.9 miles9
Mystic2.1 miles9
Darbyville2.7 miles9
Walnut City2.8 miles9
Brazil3.2 miles9
Sunshine3.3 miles11
Diamond (historical)3.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455434. 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.