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Eleanor, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50604. The Survey maps it on the Parkersburg quadrangle.

Eleanor within Butler 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Eleanor between 2006 and 2020, burning about 102 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
7 May 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Eleanor: 2 past producers, 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
Austinville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Limburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eleanor in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
June 2013Flash FloodEleanor$500,000Thunderstorms produced 3.5 to 4 inches of rain in a short time. Roads covered in Aplington in the area of Highway 57 and 6th Ave.
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Eleanor-Brief landspout photographed by several members of the public.
May 2013Heavy RainEleanor-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 1.92 inches.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Aplington2.8 miles9
Parkersburg4.2 miles9
Kesley4.6 miles10
Austinville6.0 miles9
New Albion6.5 miles9
Butler Center6.7 miles9
Coster8.3 miles9
Allison10.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464533. 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.