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Durant, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Farmington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52747. It stands on Big Elkhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Durant quadrangle.

Durant within Cedar County

On record in Durant

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Durant between 2006 and 2014, burning about 44 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2930 200TH ST., IA
21 October 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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 Durant: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durant in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindDurant$250,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDurant$30,000no account filed
April 1997Tornado (F0)Durant$10,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDurant$5,000A flying barn door took the roof off a silo.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDurant$5,000no account filed
May 1995HailDurant$3,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindDurant-Measured using a car mounted anemometer.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Durant-A fast moving EF-0 tornado begun on the Muscatine/Cedar counties line. Causing roof damage, tree damage and eventually damage to farm outbuildings. The tornado had wind speeds of 85 MPH and at its widest was 50 yards.
May 2024HailDurant-Numerous reports of hail damage to vehicles in town.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDurant-Report of tree limbs blown down in Durant, one onto a home's roof.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDurant-Trees down across roads, also a baseball diamond fence was damaged.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDurant-Trees reported down over roads.
April 2015HailDurant-WQAD relayed reports of golf ball sized hail north and west of Durant.
June 2010HailDurant-Quarter-sized hail fell in Durant, IA at 739 pm June 18.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDurant-Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph were observed in Durant, IA at 739 pm June 18.
September 2022HailDurant-no account filed
March 2016HailDurant-no account filed
June 2000Funnel CloudDurant-no account filed
September 2000HailDurant-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindDurant-no account filed
May 1995HailDurant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Sunbury5.0 miles15
Ayresville8.0 miles14
Lime City9.4 miles14
Bennett10.3 miles15
Rochester14.1 miles12
Tipton16.4 miles12
Lowden17.8 miles15
Springdale19.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 456075. 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.