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Five Points, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52039. The Survey maps it on the Sherrill quadrangle.

Five Points within Dubuque 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2007 and 2015, burning about 13 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 burning1

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
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources15159 THIELEN RD, DURANGO, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 11 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Bonson MineZinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerGalena, Limonite, Sphalerite
Durango Drybone Mine Ewing DiggingsLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Smithsonite
Bonson MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Dubuque SubdistrictZinc, LeadPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC
Durango Drybone MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Sherrill Mound SubdistrictZinc, LeadPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD ZINC
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Sherrills Mound MinesLeadPast Producer
Twin Springs QuarryPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque 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
East Rickardsville1.5 miles16
Rickardsville2.6 miles15
Budd2.6 miles16
Twin Springs2.7 miles16
Cottage Hill3.7 miles15
Lore3.9 miles16
Graf4.1 miles15
O'Neill4.2 miles15

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 Five PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60760588The 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 464543. 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.