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Deerfield, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50603. The Survey maps it on the Elma quadrangle.

Deerfield within Chickasaw County

On record in Deerfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield between 2009 and 2018, burning about 156 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 April 2018Debris and open burning150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesFAYETTE & 100TH ST., IOWA
5 January 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw 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 Deerfield: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cecelia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
KaneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
KobliskaStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chickasaw County

Storms near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 2010FloodDeerfield1 hurt, $7,000A 13-year old girl was swept into a flooded creek in rural Alta Vista when cutting across a field after being dropped off a school bus. She was swept into and through a culvert before escaping. She was treated for hypothermia (direct injury) and released.||In addition, 15 roads were closed or washed out across the county. Some of this damage was due to water running over roads as culverts were frozen shut or plugged with ice. ||Other minor flooding of low lying areas and small streams and creeks was reported across the county from the evening of March 10th through the early morning of March 13th.
August 2021FloodDeerfield$500,000Numerous roads were closed across Chickasaw County because of flood waters in the Ionia area. The East Fork of the Wapsipinicon River went out of its banks forcing officials to close U.S. Highway 18 near Fredericksburg. A train attempting to cross the Wapsipinicon River southwest of New Hampton derailed causing officials to evacuate nearby residents when one of the tank cars leaked some anhydrous ammonia.
December 2021Tornado (EF0)Deerfield$330,000The second tornado of the night in Chickasaw County formed southwest of Alta Vista and moved northeast before crossing into Howard County along County Line Road just east of the Little Wapsipinicon River. This tornado was rated EF0. The tornado damaged a greenhouse facility, otherwise, damage was limited to trees.
August 2016FloodDeerfield$20,000Heavy rains caused street flooding to occur in New Hampton with 4 to 5 feet of water reported in some places. Basements in the area were also flooded. Before sunrise on the 24th, water levels continued to rise on many county roads, even those that were not near any rivers or streams. Crane Creek overflowed its banks in Jerico with the flooding primarily limited to agricultural fields and homeowner's yards.
June 2014Flash FloodDeerfield$5,000A number of county roads across Chickasaw County were closed due to wash outs. Sandbags were needed on the east side of New Hampton because of the high water.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDeerfield$2,000Trees were snapped off southwest of Alta Vista.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDeerfield$2,000The tops of several trees were blown down southwest of Alta Vista.
June 2016FloodDeerfield$2,000Some basements were flooded west of Alta Vista by runoff from heavy rains. Some minor street flooding also occurred.
April 2004HailDeerfield$1,000no account filed
August 2021Flash FloodDeerfield-Runoff from heavy rains caused numerous streams to go out of their banks across Chickasaw County. Roads throughout the township of New Hampton were had to be closed because of flood waters.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Deerfield-A tornado touched down across northwest Chickasaw County southwest of Alta Vista. The tornado traveled north-northeast across rural parts of the county before passing into Howard County southwest of Elma. This was spotted by area fire departments.

Every storm recorded in Chickasaw 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
Alta Vista4.8 miles7
North Washington5.2 miles7
Bassett7.0 miles7
Devon7.9 miles7
Chickasaw9.0 miles7
Ionia9.2 miles7
New Hampton11.9 miles7
Jerico12.6 miles7

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 DeerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5250880The 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 464515. 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.