Enterprise, Iowa
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50035. The Survey maps it on the Des Moines NE quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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 NE 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
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Enterprise between 2009 and 2017, burning about 56 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 6570 NE 102ND AVE, IA |
| 13 October 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enterprise in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 7 heavy rain, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Enterprise | $250,000 | Trained spotter reported UPS vehicle rescues have taken place, with water about chest deep in some areas. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Enterprise | $90,000 | Received reports of damage to an outbuilding near the beginning of this tornado with additional damage with a semi moved, outbuilding roof damage and trees partially knocked down. The brief tornado was east of Ankeny. |
| July 2018 | Tornado (EF2) | Enterprise | $35,000 | This tornado developed northwest of Bondurant concurrent with another tornado which developed due west of Bondurant. This tornado remained in rural areas north of Bondurant traveling to the northeast. Drone footage indicated impressive crop damage through corn and bean fields. The tornado encountered a farmstead not long before dissipating producing EF2 damage to trees. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enterprise | $10,000 | Power poles down. |
| July 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Enterprise | $2,000 | A weak tornado developed just east of Interstate 35 in far eastern Ankeny and moved northeast. Damage was observed to several trees along with other minor damage to fencing and playground equipment as it passed through a small subdivision. The tornado then moved into agricultural land before dissipating. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Enterprise | $2,000 | A car was swept off the roadway by water. |
| April 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Enterprise | - | Time estimated based on radar. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Coop observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.52 inches of rain. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.83 inches. |
| August 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Enterprise | - | Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud looking east from Oralabor Rd and State St. Estimated to be towards the Bondurant area. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 2 inches. Location estimated and reported via social media. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.07 inches over roughly the last 5 hours or since midnight. Reported via social media. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.36 inches since midnight in East Ankeny. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.23 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Enterprise | - | Rainfall since 2100 CST was 3.83 inches. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Enterprise | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48843551 | 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 456382. 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.
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.








