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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.

Conroy within Iowa County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

23 since 2007

Regional 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
22 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindConroy-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 2010HailConroy-Non-severe hail (<1.0) fell in Conroy, IA at 520 pm April 5.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindConroy-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 2008HailConroy-Nickel-sized hail fell in Conroy, IA at 5:55 pm June 12.
March 2006HailConroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Upper South Amana3.0 miles13
South Amana3.6 miles13
Williamsburg4.7 miles8
West Amana5.7 miles13
High Amana6.0 miles13
Marengo6.1 miles8
Middle Amana6.9 miles13
Homestead7.2 miles14

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 ConroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3729533The 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.