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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.

Enterprise within Polk County

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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined5
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
3 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources6570 NE 102ND AVE, IA
13 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

15 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Flash FloodEnterprise$250,000Trained spotter reported UPS vehicle rescues have taken place, with water about chest deep in some areas.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Enterprise$90,000Received 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 2018Tornado (EF2)Enterprise$35,000This 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 2008Thunderstorm WindEnterprise$10,000Power poles down.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Enterprise$2,000A 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 2008FloodEnterprise$2,000A car was swept off the roadway by water.
April 2024Funnel CloudEnterprise-Time estimated based on radar.
July 2020Heavy RainEnterprise-Coop observer reported a 24 hour rain total of 2.52 inches of rain.
September 2016Heavy RainEnterprise-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.83 inches.
August 2016Funnel CloudEnterprise-Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud looking east from Oralabor Rd and State St. Estimated to be towards the Bondurant area.
August 2016Heavy RainEnterprise-Public reported heavy rainfall of 2 inches. Location estimated and reported via social media.
June 2015Heavy RainEnterprise-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.07 inches over roughly the last 5 hours or since midnight. Reported via social media.
June 2015Heavy RainEnterprise-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.36 inches since midnight in East Ankeny.
June 2015Heavy RainEnterprise-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.23 inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
August 2010Heavy RainEnterprise-Rainfall since 2100 CST was 3.83 inches.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Quilhart (historical)0.9 miles16
Oralabor3.8 miles16
White Oak3.9 miles16
Ankeny4.0 miles16
Elkhart4.1 miles11
Bondurant4.2 miles12
Berwick4.7 miles16
Carney4.8 miles16

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 EnterpriseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48843551The 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.