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Climax, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 51533. The Survey maps it on the Coburg quadrangle.

Climax within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 2009 and 2014, burning about 130 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/undetermined2

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
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills 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
Solomon4.4 miles8
Emerson6.3 miles9
Strahan7.2 miles8
White Cloud9.1 miles8
Clark9.3 miles8
Hastings9.5 miles9
Malvern12.7 miles10
Henderson14.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464500. 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.