Curtis, Iowa

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.

• 1887 USGS Cedar Rapids quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Cedar Rapids 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
• 1968 USGS Swisher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Swisher quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Curtis (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cou Falls
• Shueyville
• Swisher
• Green Castle (historical)
• Twin View Heights
• North Liberty

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Curtis (historical): 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Johnson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464230. 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.