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Frankville, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Frankville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52162. The Survey maps it on the Frankville quadrangle.

Frankville within Winneshiek County

On record in Frankville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Frankville between 2009 and 2019, burning about 68 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Recreation and ceremony35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesPOSTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
17 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesPOSTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
31 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Frankville: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Burke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Christofferson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Estrem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Held QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hughes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Livingood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ludlow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sersland-Smorstad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankville in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFrankville$50,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFrankville$13,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFrankville$5,500no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,500Power lines and trees were knocked down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000Numerous trees were blown down south of Frankville.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000A number of trees were blown down in Frankville.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000A two foot diameter tree and power lines were blown down in Frankville.
June 2007HailFrankville$1,000Also wind gusts hit 50 mph.
June 2014Funnel CloudFrankville-A funnel cloud was sighted just outside of Frankville.
October 2006HailFrankville-no account filed
April 2002HailFrankville-no account filed
May 2000HailFrankville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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
Moneek2.0 miles11
Washington Prairie5.6 miles11
Castalia6.2 miles11
Nasset7.1 miles12
Junction (historical)7.2 miles11
Ossian8.3 miles12
Thoten8.4 miles12
Nordness8.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 456746. 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.

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.