Elrick Junction, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eliot Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52653. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle.

Elrick Junction within Louisa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1946 USGS Wapello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Wapello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Oakville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Elrick Junction between 1996 and 2016, burning about 936 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	GRANDVIEW FIRE DEPT.
8 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge	HALL'S LK CAMPFIRE 2
8 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge	HALL'S LK CAMPFIRE1
2 June 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge	BEAN FIRE
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2014	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Louisa County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Elrick Junction: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Oakville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Elrick Junction Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Louisa 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
Newport	3.5 miles	11
Oakville	3.9 miles	11
Toolesboro	4.2 miles	13
Wapello	6.7 miles	11
Morning Sun	7.4 miles	7
Port Louisa	9.7 miles	11
Marsh	12.4 miles	7
Cairo	12.6 miles	7

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 Q122568012

The 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 464537. 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.