Easton Place, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50317. It stands on Norwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Des Moines SE quadrangle.

Easton Place within Polk County

On record in Easton Place

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 2 records

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

Larnerd Case Houselisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
James Sansom Carpenter Houselisted 1998 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1905 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Des Moines SE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Easton Place between 2006 and 2011, burning about 26 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/undetermined	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	U.S 20 @ N-57, IA
16 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Easton Place: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Capitol Hill Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
West Des Moines Plant #8	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Goodwin Brick and Tile Co. Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Iowa Clay Pipe Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Berwick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bowser Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Se 22nd St. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
White Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Country Estate Village	1.3 miles	16
Norwoodville	2.3 miles	16
Des Moines	2.4 miles	16
Bowsher	2.4 miles	16
East Des Moines	2.8 miles	16
Capitol Heights	2.9 miles	16
Pleasant Hill	3.1 miles	16
Swanwood	3.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463842. 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.