Conroy, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52220. The Survey maps it on the Conroy quadrangle. 252 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.
On record in Conroy
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Plagmann Round Barnlisted 1986
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Fairfax quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Conroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Conroy between 2007 and 2020, burning about 86 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | WILLIAMSBURG FIRE |
| 9 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | WILLIAMSBURG FIRE |
| 23 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | WILLIAMSBURG FIRE |
| 23 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | WILLIAMSBURG FIRE |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conroy in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conroy | - | Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down in rural areas between the towns of Marengo and Williamsburg. Time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Conroy | - | Non-severe hail (<1.0) fell in Conroy, IA at 520 pm April 5. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conroy | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down a 30 foot tall tree about 4 miles south of Marengo, IA at 6:15 pm June 8. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Conroy | - | Nickel-sized hail fell in Conroy, IA at 5:55 pm June 12. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Conroy | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper South Amana | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| South Amana | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Williamsburg | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| West Amana | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| High Amana | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Marengo | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Middle Amana | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Homestead | 7.2 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Conroy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3729533 | 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 455578. 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.
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.







