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Coal Valley, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Marcy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50036. It stands on Noah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boone West quadrangle.

Coal Valley within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Coal Valley between 2009 and 2017, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 17, P AVE, BOONE COUNTY, IOWA
8 March 2016Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesBOONE
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictHARRIER MARSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Coal Valley: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Boone Clay WorksClayPast Producer
Everett YardClayPast Producer
Jacob Yegge BrickyardClayPast Producer
N. W. Griffee Pottery WorksClayPast Producer
Slater YardClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Ahrens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keeney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone 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
Moingona1.4 miles13
Logansport2.5 miles13
Ogden4.1 miles11
Boone4.2 miles13
Centerville4.3 miles13
Fraser6.6 miles12
Ericson8.2 miles13
Wolf8.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464503. 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.