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Cloverdale, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Holman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51249. The Survey maps it on the Cloverdale quadrangle.

Cloverdale within Osceola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

22 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cloverdale between 2008 and 2020, burning about 55 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4

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
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesASHTON FD
9 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSIBLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT
9 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSIBLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola 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 Cloverdale: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ashton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
HagedornSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hogan Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lienen BrothersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
RailroadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
RoskamSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2017Tornado (EF2)Cloverdale$300,000EF-2 tornado damaged three farm places. No one was home at any of the places impacted by the tornado. 20 to 30 head of cattle were missing after the storm.
July 2024HailCloverdale-Hail was mostly penny to nickel size, with a few stones as large as quarters.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-Three diameter tree branches were downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-Thunderstorm winds blew down tree branches and power lines, and blew a swing set into a house. The damaging winds were accompanied by small hail.
July 2023HailCloverdale-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Sibley5.0 miles7
Allendorf5.2 miles7
Melvin5.8 miles7
Ashton6.1 miles7
Ocheyedan9.3 miles7
May City11.3 miles7
Harris15.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455489. 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.