Cricket, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50044. The Survey maps it on the Buxton quadrangle.

Cricket within Mahaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Albia quadrangle1:62500, 3 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
1982 USGS Buxton quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cricket between 2014 and 2017, burning about 31 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	3

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
28 March 2015	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 February 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahaska County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cricket: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bellefountain Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Occurrence	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Occurrence	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Occurrence	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Mahaska 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
Eveland	1.0 miles	10
Lakonta	4.1 miles	7
Bolton (historical)	6.4 miles	7
Bellefountain	7.3 miles	11
Givin	8.2 miles	7
Olivet	9.0 miles	11
Evans	9.2 miles	7
Beacon	9.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455719. 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.