Cliffland, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Agency Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52530. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Agency quadrangle.

Cliffland within Wapello County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Agency quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Ottumwa South quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cliffland between 2002 and 2018, burning about 46 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 burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 April 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wapello County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cliffland: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Old City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rowell Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ulmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wapello 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Agency	2.3 miles	10
East Ottumwa	3.9 miles	9
Loch Burns	4.3 miles	9
Ashland	4.8 miles	7
Pickwick	5.7 miles	9
Ottumwa	5.9 miles	9
Yampa	6.2 miles	7
Eldon	6.4 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122594409

The 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 464499. 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.