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Forestville, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52076. It lies near Wolf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle.

Forestville within Delaware County

On record in Forestville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Forestville between 2009 and 2015, burning about 47 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
23 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 January 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Forestville: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hoth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Forrestville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sedgewick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorpe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Weston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Dundee1.5 miles12
Thorpe4.7 miles12
York5.2 miles12
Dutchtown6.9 miles12
Manchester8.7 miles12
Masonville8.7 miles10
Greeley9.9 miles12
Oneida10.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464549. 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.