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Darbyville, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52571. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiattsville quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Darbyville within Appanoose County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Darbyville in 2015, burning about 141 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 burning3

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
30 March 2015Debris and open burning120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 January 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Darbyville: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carter-Waters Corp. PlantClayProducer
Centerville QuarryClayProducer
Centerville No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Centerville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clarkdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kincade QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tait QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darbyville in 20 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 15 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2010Flash FloodDarbyville$200,000Water was reported over the road on J5T between Rathbun Lake and Walnut City.
August 2010Flash FloodDarbyville$25,000Water of unknown depth was flowing over paved County Road J29 at a rapid pace. Road was barricaded.
July 2008HailDarbyville$15,000Quarter to golf ball size hail at the Corps of Engineers Rathbun Lake office.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDarbyville$10,000Law Enforcement reported that strong winds blew a law enforcement vehicle off the road.
June 2010FloodDarbyville$10,000Roads around County Road J29 and 461st Street were closed due to flooding.
June 2021Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported 2.88 inches of rain in 24 hours.
July 2021Heavy RainDarbyville-A 24 hour rainfall report of 2.98 inches.
May 2019Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2019Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.17 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2019Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2017Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported 24 hour rainfall total of 1.13 inches.
June 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.59 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.92 inches since about 3am.
July 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Rainfall total of 3.80 inches measured at Rathbun Dam over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Storm total of 4.20 inches measured at Rathbun Dam.
September 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Mesonet recorded heavy rainfall of 3.79 inches storm total.
September 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.50 inches storm total.
December 2015Heavy RainDarbyville-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
August 2014Heavy RainDarbyville-Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 1.55 inches.
July 2010Heavy RainDarbyville-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 4.00 inches.

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Rathbun1.3 miles9
Clarkdale2.7 miles9
Maine2.8 miles9
Forbush3.3 miles9
Hiattsville3.4 miles9
Walnut City3.8 miles9
Mystic4.6 miles9
Centerville5.7 miles11

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 DarbyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18149568The 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 455793. 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.

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.