Fallow, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lost Island Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51342. The Survey maps it on the Graettinger West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fallow within Palo Alto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Graettinger West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fallow (historical) between 2005 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. 1 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	4
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
7 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Iowa Wetland Management District	BLUE WING MARSH
29 May 2014	Smoking	21 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2015	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Wetland Management District	WESTERGARD
26 March 2012	Natural	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Alto County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fallow (historical): 9 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hankey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hurd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Alto 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
Graettinger	3.9 miles	7
Osgood	5.4 miles	7
Ruthven	7.0 miles	7
Emmetsburg	8.6 miles	7
Ayrshire	11.1 miles	7
Depew	13.8 miles	7
Cylinder	15.2 miles	7
Curlew	15.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464070. 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.