Crisp, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51546. The Survey maps it on the Hard Scratch quadrangle.

Crisp within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Hard Scratch quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Crisp between 2008 and 2014, burning about 92 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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
Hard Scratch	2.4 miles	8
Union Burg (historical)	4.5 miles	8
Beebeetown	4.7 miles	8
Orton	5.4 miles	8
Logan	6.2 miles	8
Persia	7.5 miles	8
Yorkshire	7.9 miles	8
Euclid	8.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465417. 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.