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East Iron Hills, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Farmers Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52060. The Survey maps it on the Fulton quadrangle.

East Iron Hills within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of East Iron Hills between 2009 and 2020, burning about 125 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6

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
27 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2013Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Iron Hills: 3 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
Maquoketa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crabtown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schwenker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Ironhills1.7 miles17
West Iron Hills2.9 miles17
Fulton3.2 miles17
Crab Town4.2 miles17
Hurstville4.3 miles17
Emeline5.0 miles17
Buckhorn5.8 miles17
Nashville6.1 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122588717The 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 465358. 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.