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Dresden, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50659. The Survey maps it on the Frederika quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dresden within Chickasaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dresden (historical) between 2009 and 2011, burning about 58 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9

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
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources270TH ST., IA
18 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2175 290TH, NEW HAMPTON, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dresden (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Williamstown1.0 miles9
Boyd3.9 miles7
Republic4.6 miles9
New Hampton5.5 miles7
Fredericksburg6.4 miles9
Ionia8.2 miles7
Devon9.9 miles7
Bradford9.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464082. 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.