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Emeline, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brandon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52207. The Survey maps it on the Leisure Lake quadrangle.

Emeline 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Emeline between 2009 and 2014, burning about 24 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/undetermined4
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
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa 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
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 February 2012Debris and open burning7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 January 2012Debris and open burning4.0 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Emeline: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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
Gillespie Farm DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Mineral Creek DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Canton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crabtown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mo-Keta Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emeline in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindEmeline-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph about 1 mile west of Emeline, IA around 430 pm June 27.

Every storm 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
Crab Town1.8 miles17
West Iron Hills2.2 miles17
Ozark (historical)2.3 miles17
Ironhills3.4 miles17
East Canton3.5 miles17
Ozark3.6 miles17
East Iron Hills5.0 miles17
South Garry Owen5.3 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 Q122598645The 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 456359. 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.