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Fulton, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Farmers Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52060. It stands on Farmers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fulton quadrangle.

Fulton within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fulton between 2006 and 2020, burning about 192 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7

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
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2013Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fulton: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Andrew QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maquoketa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schwenker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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 2010Thunderstorm WindFulton$100,000Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew a semi over at mile marker 164 on Highway 61 about 6 miles north of Maquoketa, IA at 131 pm June 18.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFulton$6,000Tree down on house
June 2002Flash FloodFulton-North Fork of the Maquoketa River rising rapidly. Deep Creek out of it's banks and over Highway 61.
March 2016HailFulton-no account filed
August 2014HailFulton-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindFulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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 Iron Hills3.2 miles17
Hurstville3.9 miles17
Andrew4.5 miles17
Ironhills4.9 miles17
Bridgeport5.2 miles17
Maquoketa5.9 miles17
Otter Creek6.0 miles17
West Iron Hills6.1 miles17

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 FultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65073010The 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 456803. 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.