Conger, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50240. It stands on Clanton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle.

Conger within Warren 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.

1951 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Conger in 2015, burning about 13 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	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
21 March 2015	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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
Wick	1.1 miles	11
Martensdale	1.9 miles	11
Churchville	3.1 miles	9
West Saint Marys	3.2 miles	11
Saint Marys	3.4 miles	11
Prole	4.3 miles	11
Spring Hill	7.3 miles	11
Greenbush	7.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464507. 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.